There's a nice little thread about this over on the Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=17076&highlight=mistakes
Thanks, Kent On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:20:49 -0800 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:19PM -0800, Fred Van Andel wrote: > > I can top that. > > > > Last Friday instead of typing > > chown -R staff.staff * > > >from the /pub directory, I did it from the root directory > > and changed the ownership of every file on the system. > > > > Needless to say nothing worked quite right after that. > > > > Fortunately the machine hadn't gone into service yet so I > > was able re reinstall without to much problem. > > > > I suppose every admin does something like that at least > > once. > > No, I think you are the first. > > Well, ok, maybe not, I have three similar horror stories. > > 1 - (not me) chmod -R www-data.www-data * in the wrong directory (with > similar results :) > 2 - (me) > # cd /etc > # ls backup/ > # rm * > > "oops" > 3 - (not me) Similar to the above, except he removed the /admin > directory on a web application project that he had been working on for > the last couple of weeks. > 10 min before the customer called the boss to find out the status. > Needless to say he spent a few late nights getting it all re-written :) > > alan > > -- > Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > "The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches > us nothing. -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >
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