A bit of masochistic humor for everyone. What not to do with your vnc account

[Geoff Urban]

To my dismay, I tried logging on to a vnc session this morning, I noticed
funny behavior, and very sluggish perfomance.  The network was relatively
quiet so I was wondering what could be causing this sluggish performance.  I
correctly surmised that the problem lay within the server itself.

Mistake 1:

Reboot server.

Upon rebooting the server, I got a message telling me that I was out of disk
space... out of disk space? I had 3GB out of 18GB the day before... what could
have caused that?  A virus? A malicious trojan? Space invaders from Mars?
No... the problem, as it turns out, was a massively bloated vnc log file.

Mistake 2:

Leave your vnc client connected and automatically relog when the client
disconnects, for testing purposes.

Mistake 3:

Forgot to implement quotas on the new user for vnc sessions.

The log file took up 15GB of space on my disk, and for some reason xfs
wouldn't start, which in turn caused gnome to fail.

Thought this would give everyone a good laugh.