At 09:49 PM 2/2/2003 -0900, you wrote:

Well, I do recall a case where someone was going to remove a directory with
configuration files to allow it to rebuild itself

The command was

rm -rf /home/poorunfortunate/.kde

since he was running as root

and he got precisely this far:

rm -rf /

when the cat launched from the floor to the desktop and planted a paw squarely
on the "enter" key

Well---to put it mildly, there was a disturbance on the system as all the
files on the machine ALL went away.

Seriously runing as root removes all virus and trojan protection linux has
beyond the fact that there are no helpful automatics to load them into your
machine.

Civileme
Luv, as always you have gotten my attention. I shall forward this as well. And fwiw, I didn't know that about the virus/trojan stuff. Thx learned something new today :)
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