From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 18 13:57:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.iadfw.net (mail2.iadfw.net [206.66.12.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC49237B634 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsmethers@pdq.net) Received: from jason from [64.31.207.156] by mail2.iadfw.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.11) with smtp for sender: id ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:57:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <007101bff0fb$261919e0$9ccf1f40@pdq.net> From: "Jason" To: "FreeBSD Chat" References: <20000718165600.13757.qmail@web1304.mail.yahoo.com> <20000718224821.F19428@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <002301bff0df$8be558e0$9ccf1f40@pdq.net> <20000718231630.H19428@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: The joys of Windows Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:00:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Jason said on Jul 18, 2000 at 12:42:29: > > > is unnecessary. I challenge you to find anything comparable in the > > > history of unix. > > > > There was a bug in /usr/sbin/pkg_add where while installing a ports package > > that it received a ^c it would rm -rf the current users home directory. This > > feature worked for some time on both FreeBSD and NetBSD. > > > > Satisfied? > > Well, at least very surprised. Was the "current user" root, or the > person who'd su-ed to root? Uh, doesn't have much to do with it. Who ever ran pkg_add would have rm -rf run on their home directory (I don't recall exactly) instead or in addition to the temporary package directory. - Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message