[Linux-users] It's finally happened...

2012-10-17 Thread Steve Holdoway
Just had one of my customers call up about a web platform I built up for them. Seems the database server died for no apparent reason. Using linode's brilliant rescue service, I got the root disk up and running. It contained 6 files, 4 logs and 2 created on emergency shutdown. Yup, for the first

Re: [Linux-users] It's finally happened...

2012-10-17 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:25:09 Steve Holdoway wrote: Yup, for the first time EVER ( 29 years of adminstering *nix! ), I've seen a server that has been rm -rf /'d I haven't seen it personally, but I have read a story about someone's shell script periodically deleting $HOME/. (I can't