On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:07:57PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > But seriously, I suggest: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc <host here> 65535 > > -- Then this: > > Who needs users anyway? > > What is it, April Fool-a-Newbie Day or something?
I'd say it's all good advice. The first thing you have to learn as a newbie is read the doc, or at least read the man page if you're at all uncertain what a command will do. Second thing is never run anything at all as root unless you're really sure you know what (a) you're doing, and (b) what the command will do. (and then there's keeping backups/multiple copies of important data etc etc) Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
