Re: Unattended ontape

Madison Pruet wrote: > In a previous life of mine, I had a 'c' program that wrapped ontape >[SNIP] > Really cool stuff. > > Then disaster.... >[SNIP] bewwwdiful - I love it. Can I quote that? I'll change the names to protect the innocent of course. My first self-inflicted disaster was far duller: # rm -rf / tmp/filepattern yes, that's a root prompt, and yes, my fingers slipped a space in there, and it did a lot of damage... These things are very sobering.

Andrew Hamm wrote: > My first self-inflicted disaster was far duller: > > # rm -rf / tmp/filepattern > > yes, that's a root prompt, and yes, my fingers slipped a space in there, and > it did a lot of damage... > > These things are very sobering. My equivalent had someone else in the driving seat, but nice new machine, lots of software installed. Created a temporary user for some reason - so put their home directory as root, /, since there really wasn't a need to create a directory just for them. Nice script to remove a user - asks if you want to remove the home directory too. The script didn't check whether that was / and did a very good job of 'rm -fr /'. It is surprising how long a machine can continue to run after you've lobotomized it. Fortunately they had full backups made a day or so earlier - only took a day or two to redo everything. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/