rm -rf

[Ben Duncan]

Twice, myself, over 20 or so years of *NIX admin'ing.

Once on a Motorolla 3800 UNIX machine, another on a
early version LINUX machine ....

As they say:

Been there, done that, did not LIKE it ....

Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 8:48 am, Dan Martin wrote:
> 
>>Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>>
>>>Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.justpasha.org/folk/rm.html
>>>
>>>Back in my school days, I issued a `rm *` on a NCR Tower Unix terminal,
>>
>>I did the same thing, except it wasn't an NCR.
>>
>>And I wasn't a student.     :-(
>>
> 
> 
> I did it, and far too recently, on AIX. It was caught quickly (within seconds) 
> and the damage was minimal. I was able to restore what I needed from a mksysb 
> backup and an install CD using smitty.
> 
> Tim
> 
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Ben Duncan   - Business Network Solutions, Inc. 336 Elton Road  Jackson MS, 39212
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