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Date:      Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:53:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@highperformance.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204201543320.432-100000@server2.highperformance.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020420155825.GB1199@hades.hell.gr>

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On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> Which almost invariably is ``rm -fr /'' or similar ...
> ... while the Windows partitions are mounted read-write too.
> 
> Ah, you got to love this Murphy guy ;-)

Ah yes.  I remember my painful lesson well.  I was cleaning up after many
iterations of a apache+php+ssl build.

# rm -rf * .log
:: waiting ::
:: waiting ::
:: realization sets in ::
^C
# ls -la
bash: ls: command not found
:: cursing in disbelief ::
# pwd
bash: pwd: command not found
:: more cursing in disbelief ::
:: wondering how far it got ::
:: more cursing in disbelief ::
:: realizing it got too damn far ::
:: realizing that the tape backup should be the first priority ::
:: praying that the error didn't make it to the RAID where all the
important stuff is ::
:: reaching for Redhat CD ::

Indeed, if one hasn't learned, one will.  Go ahead, log in as root all the
time.  I didn't get bit until I had a couple years under my belt.  I
figured that if it hadn't bit me yet, it never would.

I put my $PWD in my prompt after that too. :)

Later,
Jason C. Wells


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