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When you accidentally 'sudo reboot' in prod.

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  • 1
    That wouldn't do anything except knock it offline for 30 sec tho?
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    @Dacexi Which could be bad if its a API load balancer being used by hundreds of apps. :(
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    @trubesv Ubuntu does not prompt you for your root password if you already used it in the terminal session.
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    How do you accidentally type reboot?
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    What were you smoking...?
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    @skprog when you think you are in a lower environment that you need to reboot. If you've never done something like that, you haven't lived yet.
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    @trubesv could have had a lower region open as well meaning to reboot that one. Turns out that's exactly what happened last week when a database link was dropped in prod.
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    @Devman hey, at least you didn't delete prod database. We all make mistakes πŸ˜‰
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    My coworker once typed in `sudo systemctl suspend` in production environment, while trying to suspend his laptop. πŸ˜…
    Nevertheless, he is an intern at Google now.
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