From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 20:35:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA11028 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:35:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA11020 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:35:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA28551; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 21:37:55 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 21:37:55 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199602150437.VAA28551@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is "immutable" supposed to be a good idea? In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Oh, weird party trick: some time just before nuking a system to do > a fresh install or something, rm /sbin/init, halt and reboot and watch. > That is certainly not what other UNIX systems do... It is most certainly what other Unix systems do. Someone mistakenly wiped out init on an Ultrix box at my University (they thought they were deleting an old user account, rm -rf *), and it required a complete re-install to get things working. I wiped out init in the 386bsd days, but luckily I was able to recover by installing a new version of init off the install floppy. Nate