From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 18 0:55:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E53437B4CF for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stade.demon.co.uk ([158.152.29.164]) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13lo4c-000Hs2-0W for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:55:42 +0100 Received: from titus.stade.co.uk (titus.stade.co.uk [192.168.1.5]) by stade.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA46392 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:46:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1@titus.stade.co.uk) Received: (from aw1@localhost) by titus.stade.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9I6fti43211 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:41:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:41:55 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) Message-ID: <20001018074155.B13296@titus.stade.co.uk> Reply-To: aw1@stade.co.uk Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Wontroba , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from jcwells@nwlink.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:39:44PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE Organization: Yes, I need some of that. X-Phone: +(44) 121 681 6677 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:39:44PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > # rm -rf /tmp/ * Some years ago there was a news article posted which asked for examples of UNIX console accidents. The requestor was somebody giving a talk who wanted a few snappy examples to open with. The thread developed into hundreds of true "I screwed my system like this ...." confessions. Some were obvious. Some subtle. Most instructive. Many hilarious (8-) I used to have them all archived, but have mislaid them. If anybody still has a set, I'd appreciate being mailed them. -- Adrian Wontroba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message