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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > I thought you guys might find this amusing. It is a warning that even > running commands with sudo can be dangerous! > > I was trying to delete some files from my USB pen drive this morning. > For some funny reason I couldn't delete a couple of files out of the > Trash can (I'm running Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 Beta). I figured, okay I > haven't got time to mess around so I opened up a terminal, changed to > the USB key directory and ran... > > rm -fr .Trash-Rob > > Great I thought, that's the trash emptied (it was complaining about a > permissions problem which I considered strange on a FAT formatted > device!). > > I then wanted to do something else in the terminal window, I think it > was checking the MD5SUMs of Ubuntu Edgy that I had downloaded. > > I entered cd / and pressed enter. Unfortunately I think, I'd hit the > up arrow key a second before so I actually entered the command... > > rm -fr .Trash-Rob cd / > > Good old Ubuntu remembered my password on the sudo command as I'd > previously entered it a few seconds before. Before I knew it I was > rm'ing everything from / downwards! > > Luckily I caught it in time (Ctrl-C didn't respond) so I closed the > terminal window. I think it only deleted /bin /sbin /boot and /etc as > my data appears to be intact. Not ideal as I'll have to reinstall but > still its not the end of the world I guess. Just as well I downloaded > the Edgy ISO's now :-) > > So I guess the moral of the story is even when running sudo, think > before pressing Enter (or at least when using the rm command don't do > rm -fr!). > > Rob > easily done with "sudo" which is why I never use it... - -- Neil Stone Systems Administrator FlashTek UK - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d+(++) s: a-(?) C++++(--) UL++++$ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+ o+ w--- O M PS+ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5+ X+ R+ tv+ b- DI++ D+++ G e h--- r+++ y++++(**) - -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFQi41z3Av8JKgzxQRAjxNAJ0aDMvHg7jA1dlks8ZvBCUtA7inaQCgj2zc zmPEwyyrgR/Mhhe+c9aHuL8= =YvBm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html