Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-28 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:42:48PM -0500, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Loren M. Lang thusly... On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:14:04PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command: #

Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-27 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello FreeBSD friends: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command: # grep -R something / and after a while, my system did not respond. I do not remember the exact messages as I am on a winbugs at the University. The error

Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-27 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:42:48PM -0500, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Loren M. Lang thusly... On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:14:04PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command:

I killed my system with grep

2005-02-25 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello FreeBSD friends: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command: # grep -R something / and after a while, my system did not respond. I do not remember the exact messages as I am on a winbugs at the University. The error was about

Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-25 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:14:04PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello FreeBSD friends: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command: # grep -R something / Running a grep on an entire system as root is a bad idea. At least limit to

Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello FreeBSD friends: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command: # grep -R something / and after a while, my system did not respond. I do not remember the exact messages as I am on a

Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-25 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Loren M. Lang thusly... On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:14:04PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command: # grep -R something / You probably hit a file under /dev/

Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-25 Thread John
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:14:04 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote Hello FreeBSD friends: I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. Yesterday I entered the command: # grep -R something / and after a while, my system did not respond. I do not remember the exact messages as