[Nottingham] Hints, tips and err... errors ;-)

[Rory Holland]

I remember once trying to play a "trick" on someone.
I tried to pipe the output of "rm -rf /" to their tty so they would be all
scared.

Unfortunately I was drunk and did the following:

su
rm -rfv / | write foo bar

oh the fun.

On 9 November 2010 15:33, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> An interesting series of links that I've just stumbled across whilst
> troubleshooting:
>
>
> 20 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-linux-monitoring-tools.html
>
>
> 20 Linux Server Hardening Security Tips
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-security.html
>
>
> 10 Greatest Open Source Software Of 2009
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/10-greatest-open-source-software-of-2009.html
>
>
> My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/my-10-unix-command-line-mistakes.html
>
>
> Of the errors examples, I've certainly been caught a few times with the
> horror of a single ">" on a commandline rather than the intended ">>".
> Hence a certain paranoia now to copy config files to
> "configfile.version" _before_ doing anything!...
>
>
> And for the biggest tip of all:
>
> Google (or whichever your favourite search engine) is a fantastic tool
> to see if anyone else has documented a fix to whatever you're trying to
> fix. The hardest part is in framing the search term usefully.
>
>
> Also, the above cyberciti site is quite a good blog example for the
> articles. Not so sure though about the menus to reach the articles...
> You're forced to do a search.
>
> Which reminds me about our new website...
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
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