[ale] Stupid Question Time

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 12:16 -0500, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 02/03/2012 11:28 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> > There are two kinds of Admins:
> > The kind that have done "rm -rf /" without meaning it.
> > The kind that lie and say they have never done it.

> But, I really never have done "rm -rf /"!

> I *have*, however, done "rm -Rf / tmp/foo" before.  Of course, I didn't
> realize what I had done until it was too late.  I found myself wondering
> why it hadn't returned yet, and then I realized my error...

Of course then there's the really amusing classic that lots of
developers have done...

% rm * .o
rm: .o not found.

> And of course, at the time, I was indeed root.  :-/

Yeah.  Be wveerwy careful running running as root.
 
> 	--- Mike

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