On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:11:00PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> It actually happened more than once .... and on production boxen at that.
> One of my friends was at Satyam about five years back - got root on an old unix
> box with c shell the default. He wanted to clear out all the files in his /tmp
> - and forgot to see the pwd, and what he was logged in as. # rm -rf / tmp
> works quite well ...
Ha ha.. Looks like I am in very good company. Let me reveal my share of
goof-ups. Logged in as root, I have once typed "rm -rf *" in the /
directory. Believe it or not, but this was on a company's web-server :-0
What happened next, is left to the reader's fertile imagination ;-(
That is not all. Just 2 weeks back I repeat the same. This time it
was on my home m/c. I realised this a bit too late. Anyway the second time
the damage was not too much. Only lost slrn files and _all_ my Window
Maker customization.
Enjoy a laugh at my expense ;-(
Moral of the story: Don't switch off ur brain, while logged in as
root. And yes make periodic backups. It helps maaan... Experience ki baath
hai ;-)
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Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later;
for another thing they die earlier.
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