On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:18:19AM -0400, Christian scripsit: > Graydon wrote: >> 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. > > and it only works if you quickly stop everything from writing which is > never the case on a volitile database.
Well, true, but if the file can be got with rm, either the DBA has committed a first order, flogging grade atrocity and shot part of the database with a system command, or it's not actually *in* the DB. (And the pro recovery guys can do remarkable things even if it's run for awhile; that gets pricey, though.) >> 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. > > Yeah yeah yeah, but like you say it's annoying and was only the > "default" in the last few years. Redhat 5 is the last few years? :) > anyway most of my guys use rm -f to avoid the annoying question. Time to give them a special, lightly stunned version of rm? > http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/unix-humor/100.things.sysadmin.says.html "We don't know what's wrong". -- 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.
