Another almost as destructive operation is the chmod -R... One day my boss ran chmod -R firebird:firebird . while thinking he was on /var/lib/firebird. He was on /, ran a cd /var/lib/firebird, mistyped something, and shot the server. He was explaining to me why Firebird was so awesome, and did't realized the command took way more time than it should. When I noticed where he was and told him, he jumped for the keyboard but pressed ^C after chmod finished. Phones started ringing... It was a very long weekend... On those days, we had only one beefy server hosting everything: Web, mail, cvs, a couple databases for several clients, NFS and FTP, LDAP, DNS, and almost everything you could install on a Linux circa 2002. Everything except, well, backup... Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2016-04-15 14:46 GMT-03:00 Digiital aka David <digiital@gmail.com>:
I will admit to doing that once when I first began with Linux. Not a biggie had nothing on that system I wanted. I didn't realize I was in the root directory. Lesson learned. Always double check the path :) On Apr 15, 2016 12:41 PM, "Alvin Starr" <alvin@netvel.net> wrote:
Most of us have made that same mistake but without the disastrous results.
"rm -rf" is a very big gun with a hair trigger. So its easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it and because its so big you may not just lose your foot but a leg or two. Sadly this guy was looking down the barrel when he oops'd.
On 04/15/2016 12:28 PM, Stephen wrote:
The mind wobbles ....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running-...
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