Here's a classical Unix tape gotcha:

mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 5

If you're lucky when you make this mistake, you were fsf 'ing thetape to read from it, and it is merely embarrassing and time-wasting.

The difference between normal and no-rewind tape devices is that onerewinds the tape when you use it and the other doesn't. More precisely,the tape is rewound when the tape device is closed for the last time(usually as the

I just finished filing Fedora Core Bugzilla #217080 . Betweendoing research to see if this was already a solved or known problem,gathering all the information, and actually writing everything down,it probably took me around three hours. (And I already have a Red HatBugzilla account and know how to use Bugzilla, or it would have takenlonger.)

This isn't particularly atypical; writing even decent bug reports issimply a lot of work, much of it tedious and/or

One of the little things that ssh does is that it checks and maintainshost keys using exactly and only the name you used on the command line;it doesn't canonicalize the name. (Well, not much; these days it willalso try the IP address that the name resolves to.)

The problem around here is that the names of machines can be specifiedin all sorts of different ways, because of domain search paths; oftenwe have bare name, bare name plus the subdomain, and then two