Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

On September 1993 plus 3572 days James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:29, Philip Webb wrote: >> 030612 Vox wrote: >> > On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote: >> > rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /* >> > Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash... >> > it w

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:29, Philip Webb wrote: > 030612 Vox wrote: > > On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote: > > rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /* > > Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash... > > it wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :) > >

RE: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

Partition tables are very small things. :) -Original Message- From: Rob Blomquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root? On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:20 pm, Jason Guidry

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

030612 Vox wrote: > On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote: > rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /* > Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash... > it wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :) i make it a strict rule before any command of the form 'rm -r

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 01:54, KevinO wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rob Blomquist wrote: > > Yeah, but cdrom.img is only 1.4Mb in size, hardly enough to do much damage. > > > Think about what is sitting in the first 1.4Mb of the hard drive, starting at > the beginning

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Blomquist wrote: > Yeah, but cdrom.img is only 1.4Mb in size, hardly enough to do much damage. > Think about what is sitting in the first 1.4Mb of the hard drive, starting at the beginning of the disk itself, not at the beginning of a partition...

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote: > # cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /* Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash...it wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :) Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche e

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:20 pm, Jason Guidry wrote: > Rob Blomquist wrote: > >># cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda > > > > Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would > > mess things up? > > consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file > X (cdrom.im

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:20, Jason Guidry wrote: > Rob Blomquist wrote: > >># cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda > > Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess > > things up? > > consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file > X (cdrom.img in th

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

Rob Blomquist wrote: # cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess things up? consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file X (cdrom.img in this case) onto the primary master, I'm gonna guess in his case it was

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:44 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > # cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda > > > I learned a *lot* about Linux that night... Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess things up? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

Arr!! I feel your pain.;-) # cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda I learned a *lot* about Linux that night... -- Jim C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:32:01 -0700 Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, what's the dumbest thing you have done? Wanting to remove all files in a dir, including dot (.foo) files: rm -rf .* ., .. (oops! -- recursed all the way back to /) Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandr

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

> Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my mp3 > server, when I sent a chmod -R 666 * at my home directory. It knocked out my > KDE Desktop, and probably several other things, but luckily I killed it > quick! could be out of topic, but if you chmod -R, you have direc

RE: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

# cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda I learned a *lot* about Linux that night... David -Original Message- From: Rob Blomquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:32 PM To: Expert Subject: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root? Well, I was trying to correct a f

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 21:32, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my mp3 > server, when I sent a chmod -R 666 * at my home directory. It knocked out my > KDE Desktop, and probably several other things, but luckily I killed it > quick! > > O

RE: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

Had a /bin directory in my home directory for binary downloads. As root I decided to delete the directory and every thing inside it, except a little finger error and I enetered: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf /bin Man it was fast. Well we live and learn. Almost the fastest way to destroy your machine.