Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Bob Raymond managed to emit: > On Thursday 18 April 2002 12:31 am, Kurt Wall wrote: > > Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Bob Raymond managed to emit: > > > > [kerslash] > > > > > My Gentoo build is still recovering from my stupidity, typing: > > > > > > rm -rf /etc > > > > > > instead of: > > > > > > rm -rf etc > > > > Don't try this at home, kids! ;-) > > > > K > > Luckily I stopped it before complete, but I still lost /etc/init.d, /etc/rc.d, > /etc/X11, /etc/hostname, /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/profile, and a few > other things.
That's pain enough, I think. Yeow. I only did this a couple of times before I learnt to look very carefully at certain classes of commands executed as root. Kurt -- You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
