Randy Kramer wrote:
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> Try /bin/rm -r folder/ but be careful, you will get no second chance.
Y'all be careful with that!
I had a Jr. admin "helping" me clean up a production server one day. She went to
clean out an old directory (she was "in" the dir at the time).
So she (rather quickly) typed "rm -rf . /*"
Oops! The space between the . and the / made all the difference.. :)
She got to practice rebuilding a server that day. :)
It actually takes a few minutes before the server dies. It usually has enough of
the OS cached that it will continue running, even after eating it'self like
that, until you ask it to do somehting that isn't cached.
So.. Watch your typing when you use rm -rf. It can be dangerous.
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Ric Tibbetts
Boeing Shared Services Group
UNIX System Administration
Seattle Server Operations
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