Sometimes you can just trust that others can be more deviant then yourself in some matters and I have come across just such a situation. We have some in-house shenanigans going on between co-workers on a dev box ( i.e. messing with .profiles, attribute hijinx, etc ). In one case a youngster is having fun with an old mainframe dude that he ( the youth ) is teaching him ksh scripting via messing with him. So I've decided to help the old mainframe guy get even by 'teaching' some Perl to him (The mainframe dude). Some Perl that'll mess with the youngster a bit.. not destructive.. just frustrating.. Like say looping his login as an example.

Oh.. and it's my box (root) so anything is game :)

I kind of figure you all would have much better, creative, harrasment ideas then myself so please share! :)

Update: I'll post the winning idea when ones decided :)

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