On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:57:55PM +1300, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > 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.
Reminds me of this old chestnut from the `sudo install.sh` script for the Bumblebee project for Optimus graphics switching on Linux (line 351): https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commit/a047b Malc _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
