Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 14:43:37 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <41614579.7090508@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20041004123400.GF2493@submonkey.net> References: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr> <20041002102918.W22102@fw.reifenberger.com> <20041002085143.GA52519@gothmog.gr> <84ekke3i34.fsf@plab.ku.dk> <Pine.BSI.4.58.0410042021290.509@dave.horsfall.org> <20041004123400.GF2493@submonkey.net>
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Ceri Davies wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:27:45PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: >=20 >>On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dmitry Karasik wrote: >> >> >>>I just wonder, if 'rm' is so fearful to you, why bother changing rm(1)= ? >>>Write a simple wrapper around, as many sysadmins do for their needs, a= nd >>>use it instead of rm. >> >>Precisely. >> >>This is -hackers; why do we need to be protected from ourselves? >=20 >=20 > All the world is not -hackers. I have more than enough bikeshedwood now to get past the winter, could=20 we stop this now please ? --=20 -S=F8ren
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