On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:28:10AM -0400, Christian scripsit: > John Sessoms wrote: >> Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? >> >> If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager >> in the first place, and I wouldn't have clicked on the End Task button. > > Yesterday a DBA asked me if there was any way to recover a file that he > did "rm" on a linux system.
Strictly, there _is_ a way; it involves hex editors and inodes and it has to be really, really worth it, but there is a way. > sometimes the "Are you sure you want to do that?" prompts are a good > thing. :-) alias rm="rm -i" Which is the usual linux distro default, and which I turn off because it makes me mightily annoyed. It might be the case that your DBA ought not to be able to turn it off. Generally, though, if it's important, it belongs in version control. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
