(OT) Re: KDE3

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:30:01 PDT 2004


Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Bob Raymond managed to emit:
> On Thursday 18 April 2002 12:31 am, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Bob Raymond managed to emit:
> >
> > [kerslash]
> >
> > > My Gentoo build is still recovering from my stupidity, typing:
> > >
> > > rm -rf /etc
> > >
> > > instead of:
> > >
> > > rm -rf etc
> >
> > Don't try this at home, kids! ;-)
> >
> > K
> 
> Luckily I stopped it before complete, but I still lost /etc/init.d, /etc/rc.d, 
> /etc/X11, /etc/hostname, /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/profile, and a few 
> other things.

That's pain enough, I think. Yeow. I only did this a couple of
times before I learnt to look very carefully at certain classes of
commands executed as root.

Kurt
-- 
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