El día Tuesday, January 29, 2013 a las 12:23:09PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf escribió:
> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 10:08 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation.
>
> Perhaps true, but if such a simple mistake can't be fixed, what happens
> when somebody makes a big mistake? Perhaps more people stay with Linux
> than other *NIX, regarding to the policy, that issues should be fixed
> instead of always starting from the beginning. ;)?
>
> Of course, if I simply would restore from a dump, it will be less time
> consuming and it wouldn't annoy you, but I would have the bad feeling,
> that if ever needed, thinks can't be fixed, I always would have to
> restore from backups. And what happens, if for what reason ever a backup
> shouldn't be available?
A damage like this can only be done with root privs and if you are root
you should be careful and think twice before; this is true for any UNIX
and Linux type system.
matthias
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