Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:52:32 -0400 From: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@home.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) Message-ID: <39EE53E0.AC0226FA@home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150739480.59649-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1001016133315.4098A-100000@utah> <20001017035437.B537@hand.dotat.at>
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Tony Finch wrote: > > "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> 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
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