Re: OT - Getting fired for database oops

  • From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:46:11 +1000

Charles Schultz wrote,on my timestamp of 19/05/2009 12:09 AM:

alias rm 'rm –yes-i-know-i-specified-rf-and-yes-i-know-im-about-to-
specify-the-root-directory-and-yes-i-know-im-logged-in-
as-root-do-it-anyways'

"With great power comes great responsibility".

You just cannot have it two different ways. Great power and no
responsibility only happens in Hollywood and books/movies.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 08:53, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


 Ouch!



rm –rf /   ….how many ways can that one bite you?  Honestly, sometimes I
think rm needs an option like:

rm –rf
–yes-i-know-i-specified-rf-and-yes-i-know-im-about-to-specify-the-root-directory-and-yes-i-know-im-logged-in-as-root-do-it-anyways
/



One of the reasons in our systems root has an alias defined
for rm:  "rm -i"

Many moons ago, when Unix was AT&T System VR2,
the classic way to remove the entire file system
when logged in as root was:

$rm -rf .*

It worked from ANY directory, not just /
(think about it)

Then AT&T fixed that hole.  Darn, no more fun....

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