While I should keep the company I worked for a secret out of respect; it was a major retail chain in the US with about 7000 locations at the time.
The year was 2007. I had only been working for 2 years in my career, and I had already advanced to the infrastructure team. At that time we were still using SCO Unix 5.0.5 or 5.0.7 on all of the servers at each location.
Out of the normal chaos, a semi-urgent request came. Apparently there were certain server models that...