On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 02:06:32PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote: > That is why you test your script and just echo commands like the above to > check the script will fill in the details appropriately. The script could > also have built a path and stored it in an environment variable then checked > the variable contents before use.
Yep, of course. > Also, for this to have deleted everything it would have had to have been run > with root privileges. And it was. > Its one thing for this to happen to a home machine. For a company server you > would expect to have more than one backup and never hook up more than one > backup to the live servers at a time. Of course you should have more than one backup device. As long as it is connected to the live system, it is NOT a backup device. It is only a backup device when it is no longer connected. Seems this person didn't understand that. > As has been suggested, it is likely a hoax. Perhaps an April Fools joke that > someone picked up and ran with not realizing it was a joke. I wish I could believe that, but I suspect it really did happen. Some people should not be designing and running systems. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
