Re: Best backup system/plan for maximum safety - what do y'all do?

[Bret Hughes]

Brian Ashe wrote:

> Hi Cameron,
>
> [snip]
> CS> While we're bitching about rm, anyone know how to fix its prompting behaviour?
>
> I believe you are just being affected by Redhat's decision to make sure only
> experienced users can delete files without prompting. I think this was an
> acceptable, but annoying, decision, since they were trying to get WinXX people
> to move over to Linux and those people would not understand that there is no
> recovery from that operation, having been used to the recycle bin.
>
> It is just an alias in the /etc/bashrc and/or /root/.bashrc
> rm='rm -i'
>
> So go edit those and you will be back to normal. ;)
>
> I know it bothered me for a little while too.

I vacilate whether this is a good thing or not.  Currently I don't like it since it
can allow a user (me) to get use to it and then get on another box that may not have
the alias set and delete a whole bunch of stuff accidentally.  It has saved my bacon
from stupidity before though so....

Bret



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