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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Remember many moons ago someone created a file –r * in the root directory of a server… removed it by specifying the inode<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kent-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:kent-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Halliday<br><b>Sent:</b> 09 September 2010 13:14<br><b>To:</b> Kent Linux User Group - General Topics<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Klug-general] My PFY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The same reason you would want to go to your box and run (as root):<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>rm -rf /<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Or any other command that someone tells you you could try without doing a quick bit or research.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 9 September 2010 13:10, Martin A. Brooks <<a href="mailto:martin@antibodymx.net">martin@antibodymx.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Thu, September 9, 2010 12:53, Adam Buckland wrote:<br>> Try kill -9 -1 then as root!<br>><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Umm, why would I do that?<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kent mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>