Intentionally or accidentally. Could be physical, interpersonal or conceptual/intangible.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Accidentally wrote a 2GB ‘nohup.out’ file when I forgot I had a script running as nohup in the background without redirecting STDOUT and STDERR to /dev/null.

    Basically, I forgot to prevent saving the output of my program to a file, and it created a massive file because of it.

    2GB might not seem like much, but this was on a server with ~5GB free space left. Could have been worse had I not caught it sooner.