From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 18 18:52:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from downstairs.conyers.net (cr419806-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.55.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4094D37B4D7 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by downstairs.conyers.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA70109 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:52:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pnmurphy@home.com) Message-ID: <39EE53E0.AC0226FA@home.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:52:32 -0400 From: Paul Murphy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) References: <20001017035437.B537@hand.dotat.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Finch wrote: > > "Jason C. Wells" wrote: > > > >Let's consider the following typo: > > [snip] > > Well, one usually spots the mistake and interrupts it fairly quickly. > There's /boot /bin /dev /etc before you get to anything important :-) > (One of the disadvantages of softupdates, however, is that it'll get > through those directories in the blink of an eye...) > [snip] Been there, done that. I was trying to find and remove '*.core' but I must have typed '*,core' [note comma]. Finally cought on when I got error message '/dev is a directory'. Oh well I needed to upgrade to FBSD 4.1 anyway! -- P. Murphy Home: Lat 43.5584 Long -79.6502 Work: Lat 43.4277 Long -79.7077 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message