Danny Stewart

It’s 4:00 in the morning and I just woke up to a slew of emails informing me that my server had exploded. This was because I had majorly screwed up with the shell script I had written to move drafts. I forgot to include a section checking whether the script was already running, so the script kept running itself repeatedly until it brought the server to its knees.

I’ve corrected the script on my server and in the original post, so if you were unfortunate enough to copy that script from me, make sure you update yours as well.