Re: [gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-09 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Well I usually installed linux in a single partition with a swap partition in another hard drive for better performance. I never till lately have used extra partitions for /boot or /usr. However the second hard drive was needed to make a second pc boot so I ended up with no swap on a pc with

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-07 Thread Nicholas Hockey
Sorry about all the grammerical errors i'm very sleepy. i think you understand what i'm trying to say tho On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 03:51, Nicholas Hockey wrote: i used to work at sun micro, and while i was there i think i made on of the worst mistakes of my life. i was logged into our

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-07 Thread Ted Ozolins
Arturo di Gioia wrote: My one: Shortly after Mozilla 1.0 was released I decided to go for the next beta. Downloaded and compiled just fine. Of course as I went to install the knew Mozilla, it complained that there was an older version and prompted to remove it or choose another directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-07 Thread Gent00
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Vie 07 Feb 2003 05:51, Nicholas Hockey escribió: | i used to work at sun micro, and while i was there i think i made on of | the worst mistakes of my life... The same happened to me. I'm come from Linux world not Solaris, but because I was one

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin horror stories

2003-02-06 Thread Ing. Bernardo Lopez
here is one mine!!: cd /home/myuser/ rm -fr / (instead of *) hehehe i trashed my /bin before the rm comand stoped by himself... i was in lucky day... i had a copy of /bin... but... well rm -fr / sucks!!! On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 23:20, Alan wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:19PM -0800,