here is one mine!!: cd /home/myuser/ rm -fr / (instead of *)
hehehe i trashed my /bin before the rm comand stoped by himself... i was in lucky day... i had a copy of /bin... but... well rm -fr / sucks!!! On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 23:20, Alan 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
