Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 20:14:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <20041002201312.E90087-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com> In-Reply-To: <200410030154.i931sR348272@lakes.dignus.com>
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > If I'm remembering correctly - the historical way to > do this is to alias the "rm" command to something that > else that checks the arguments and complains appropriately > (and then executes /bin/rm.) Typically with just a shell This would be a much, much better approach. Later...... <Doug>
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