On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:25:09 Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Yup, for the first time EVER ( 29 years of adminstering *nix! ), I've
> seen a server that has been
> 
>       rm -rf /'d
> 

I haven't seen it personally, but I have read a story about someone's shell
script periodically deleting $HOME/. (I can't remember why that was desirable)
and then one day having it mistakenly run as root and it was on a machine 
where ~root was set to / rather than /root.

-- 
Ryan McCoskrie
North Canterbury, New Zealand

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