Check out this near miss

[vu pham]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 22:28 +1000, James McDonald wrote:
> 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

I think somebody said you cannot be an experienced Unix administrator if
you have not done this error :)

One of my other nightmare errors was to shutdown an wrong server when I
opened many different sessions to different servers, and I set the
active app to be the one that has the mouse over. I accidentally moved
the mouse so the focus moved to the wrong session.



Vu