Having done this very thing in /dev, let me tell you it's no
fun. (System was ok, until I rebooted. Then, that was it.
luckily all important stuff was on a separate filesystem, and
so I didn't lose anything except the system. 4 hours we were
back up, after I reinstalled the OS (SCO 5.3))
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:12:14 -0600 (CST), Andrew T Chan wrote:
>As a simple example, if you run rm -rf * as a user at the wrong place
>you deservingly screw up your portion of stuff. If you run it as root you
>could easily erase the whole system. When you are tight in space, and did
>not think well because you were working too hard, these things can easily
>happen.
>
>atc
>
>
> On 29 Mar 2001, Brandon Darbro wrote:
>
>> You don't want to run it as root. You shouldn't be running anything as
>> root unless it requires it... and then you should be darn well aware of
>> what its doing before you do.
>>
>> *TheDarb
>>
>> On 29 Mar 2001 07:13:36 -0600, texstar wrote:
>> > On Thursday 29 March 2001 02:16 am, you wrote:
>> > > Take your advocacy somewhere else. This is a win4lin list. (Same goes
>> > > for all the folks that occasionally threaten to buy VMware to "motivate"
>> > > Netraverse.)
>> > >
>> > > -Jeff
>> >
>> >
>> > Grabs a big bag of popcorn and a soda, this is getting interesting...:)
>> >
>> >
>> > BTW - how come win4lin wont let you run it as root?
>> >
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