From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 20 15:55:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from server2.highperformance.net (ip30.gte4.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.215.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0911B37B405 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.highperformance.net (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3KMr7uL000441; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@highperformance.net) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:53:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@server2.highperformance.net To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Peter Leftwich , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip In-Reply-To: <20020420155825.GB1199@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message