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Quoting Michael Mortimore <nospamformike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > what happens if you are running yakuake which seems to be in the >> background, I can type a command, click the desktop, the window >> scrolls up but it's still running in the background this is useful but >> i guess highlights a potentual danger of using sudo or even su as I do. >> >> Whats the best key combo to get out of this situation, apart from >> hitting reset of course, which could end up doing more damage. > > you can turn off the autoscrolling. you can also set a "close session" > shortcut which would have the same result as closing the terminal > window. > > you could always tell sudo not to remember passwords. the man page > says that such an option exists. > > you could set an alias for rm=rm --preserve-root so you can't make > that particular mistake. > Thanks for the hints. I will do that rm alias. Don't fancy it happening again. Rob -- 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