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From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
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Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
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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>