Mike, I think William means that you would actually move the 'rm' executable. That way when the installer tries to run rm -rf the command fails. Things would get wacky if it didn't get put back though.
John On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:16 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:56 -0400, Michael A. Knox wrote: > > William Thompson wrote: > > > > > You can always move binaries out of the path and then they cannot be > > > executed by anything. > > > > The only problem there is that the installer writes it and then removes > > it so fast you'd have to be really quick to get it moved in time! > > Move it before you run the installer. It might fail at other points if > its trying to remove stuff prior to that. > > Then again could always write a script call it rm, and have that do > nothing but return 0. To trick the installer into thinking rm returned > success vs failure. > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > >
