[Gllug] fuck.Fuck.FUCK!

[David Irvine]

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 00:13, Dean S Wilson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darran D. Rimron-Molloy" <ddrm at digital-science.net>
> 
> 
> > True story, about 15 minutes ago....
> > root at sophie: cd /usr
> > root at sophie: cd archiv     <---- something not quite right here....
> > root at sophie: rm -rf *
> > OHFUCK
> 
> Hehe
> 
> My worst one in a while is being in as root and doing an ls -al of a
> distant directory (ls -al /far/dir), not realising that I haven't
> changed directory and then kicking off a chown -R while still being in
> /...
> 
> Luckily I had a separate identical box to work from and fix the
> permissions of the half of the /dev tree... Good job it was a slow
> machine.
> 
> As an aside if your working on a Linux box (Don't know if ext2
> supports this under the BSD's) one of the things I do once a box is in
> production is make the contents of a bundle of directories like
> /usr/bin and /usr/sbin immutable with chattr +i in case I do anything
> stupid like rm'ing /. I'd lose all my stuff but the box would still be
> there.
> 
A long time ago,  at least 5 years ago, i did mv * </n> instead of shift
from  /bin and i think it was dead rat moved it all into lost+found for 
me.  I don't know what annoyed me more, the fact i'd made such a silly
type or the fact linux had a recycle bin :D

It definatly doesnt do that any more though 

D


> HTH
>   Dean
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