Check out this near miss

[Man-wai Chang]

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
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ALWAYS alias rm=`rm -i` in /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile.

:)

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