Comment on Pretend you are my boss at the rule opening factory
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 9 months ago
One of my colleagues managed to accidentally run something like rm -rf /var/tmp/ *
on a Solaris machine that was the mail server for the entire organisation.
After the command finished they realised that the inadvertent space in front of the asterisk meant that the command did slightly more damage than intended.
They were told to leave the machine running to be able to fix it from a backup, but they rebooted instead.
An open file is still usable even after it’s been deleted, so the kernel and shell were still up and running … before the reboot …
If I recall, it took weeks to fix, involving floppy disks, Sun engineers and much egg on face.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Thevrm command REALLY needs to have the -f flag changed
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 9 months ago
Yeah, except for root that is exactly how it works.
As root you are permitted to shoot your own foot and are expected to know how to aim.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Actually its the same as it overrides confirmation settings…