Re: rm -rf / protection

2004-10-05 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought this was interesting... http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection Hi Padraig! You've probably seen it, but others might not know that GNU rm has had the --preserve-root option since coreutils-5.1.0. $ rm --help |grep e-ro

Re: rm -rf / protection

2004-10-05 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought this was interesting... http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection I'd struggle to find a justification for removing / (perhaps some chroot'd scenario), but surely this kind of protection mechanism belongs in the