My horror story arose from playing with mc as root. I had to be root to mount some loopback device, then wanted to play with the contents so just went into midnight commander. I managed to untar a file by mistake and it had a whole lot of /etc entries that overwrote the system files. Like /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and a few others. Luckily I had backed them up! I paniced for a while, luckily I didn't log out, cos I wouldn't have known how to get back in - the new /etc/passwd basically had no accounts in it!
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:38:30 +0100 Vlad Berditchevskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Magnus Lie Hetland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about: > > > > cd > > rm * ~ > > > > Another one: > > cd > rm -r *>ps > > (should have been "*.ps", '.' and '>' are on the same key) > > -- > \ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \/lad http://www.hashbang.de > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
