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

[Mat Booth]

On 10 November 2010 10:19, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> On 09/11/10 15:42, Rory Holland wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Good one. Great jest apart from the side effects and the hang-over! :-(
>
>
> Just two small problems:
>
> rm doesn't have a Gentoo-esq "p" for 'practice'...
>
> and on my system at least, for mesg I get:
>
> $ mesg
> is n
>
> For next time, try mounting an LVM read-write snapshot and running the
> rm on the snapshot? :-)
>
>
> Is "write" ever used still? Anyone?
>


I still use it occasionally. Well, I use wall instead because I'm
obnoxious and can't be bothered to find out what tty the other user is
on...



> Or has IRC and twitter taken over?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>


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Mat Booth
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