<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Another almost as destructive operation is the chmod -R...<br><br>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...<br><br></div>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...<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Mauro<br><a href="http://mauro.limeiratem.com" target="_blank">http://mauro.limeiratem.com</a> - registered Linux User: 294521<br>Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-15 14:46 GMT-03:00 Digiital aka David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:digiital@gmail.com" target="_blank">digiital@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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 :) </p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 15, 2016 12:41 PM, "Alvin Starr" <<a href="mailto:alvin@netvel.net" target="_blank">alvin@netvel.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Most of us have made that same mistake but without the disastrous results.<br>
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"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.<br>
Sadly this guy was looking down the barrel when he oops'd.<br>
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The mind wobbles ....<br>
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