On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:19:52 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > > >> The outage was caused by a typo. > > > >Ah, yes. The UNIX community has the legend of the system administrator > >(aka "root") who meant to remove all single character files via "rm -f ?" > >who typed in "rm -f /" OOPS! > > > Can even superuser unlink a non-empty directory? > No. But that would unlink all empty directories and files. Not that should should be many such. Actual stupid is: rm -rf / > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
