From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain met.ie)
Date: Fri 24 Aug 2001 - 09:55:39 IST
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:27:41AM +0100 or thereabouts, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:04:19AM +0100, Wynne, Conor mentioned:
> > I may aswell tell y'all. I actualy ran rm -rf / [enter] Ahhh!!!!
> >
> > It was about a month ago here in work. I have no idea why I did this -
> > Hangover? I think what I was trying to achieve was to delete the core files
> > from / and I got the syntax wrong - way wrong.
> >
> > Ah well. No bother.
>
> Ah yes. The old "rm -rf / core" yes ?
I think it's something that *every* sysadmin should be programmed to do
(randomly) once in a root shell. The idea behind this is that, at some
stage in your career, you'll do it so let's get it over with early and then
you can forget about it.
Conor
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