Check out this near miss

[James McDonald]

I was trying to delete old files in the PDF dir but I missed the dot.

Thank goodness I wasn't logged in as root.

jm at mail:~/PDF$ rm -rf /*
rm: cannot remove `/bin/bash': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/rbash': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/sh': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/cat': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/chgrp': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/chmod': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/chown': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/cp': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/date': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/dd': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/df': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/dir': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/echo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/false': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/ln': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/ls': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/mkdir': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/mknod': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/mv': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/pwd': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/bin/readlink': Permission denied