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Comment by dmd

One of my favorites is the warning you get if you enter the shell of an Oracle ZFS storage appliance:

  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  |  You are entering the operating system shell.  By confirming this action in |
  |  the appliance shell you have agreed that THIS ACTION MAY VOID ANY SUPPORT  |
  |  AGREEMENT.  If you do not agree to this -- or do not otherwise understand  |
  |  what you are doing -- you should type "exit" at the shell prompt.  EVERY   |
  |  COMMAND THAT YOU EXECUTE HERE IS AUDITED, and support personnel may use    |
  |  this audit trail to substantiate invalidating your support contract.  The  |
  |  operating system shell is NOT a supported mechanism for managing this      |
  |  appliance, and COMMANDS EXECUTED HERE MAY DO IRREPARABLE HARM.             |
  |                                                                             |
  |  NOTHING SHOULD BE ATTEMPTED HERE BY UNTRAINED SUPPORT PERSONNEL UNDER ANY  |
  |  CIRCUMSTANCES.  This appliance is a non-traditional operating system       |
  |  environment, and expertise in a traditional operating system environment   |
  |  in NO WAY constitutes training for supporting this appliance.  THOSE WITH  |
  |  EXPERTISE IN OTHER SYSTEMS -- HOWEVER SUPERFICIALLY SIMILAR -- ARE MORE    |
  |  LIKELY TO MISTAKENLY EXECUTE OPERATIONS HERE THAT WILL DO IRREPARABLE      |
  |  HARM.  Unless you have been explicitly trained on supporting this          |
  |  appliance via the operating system shell, you should immediately return    |
  |  to the appliance shell.                                                    |
  |                                                                             |
  |  Type "exit" now to return to the appliance shell.                          |
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I like how it explicitly says "no, seriously, Mister Unix Wizard, we mean YOU."
parent dmd 4 years ago

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