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
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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-bad-line-code-article-1.2601239?cid=msn

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