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Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
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>John Beck, who works for Sun, has posted an entry in his blog yesterday
>about "rm -fr /" protection, which I liked a lot:
>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection
>
>His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for
>rm(1) of FreeBSD:
>


How about:

chflags sunlnk /
?

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