06-08-2024, 05:01 PM
(06-08-2024, 04:26 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote:(06-08-2024, 03:44 PM)the_bertrum Wrote: You ask what makes dangerous. I think I qualified when on my first day in a new job I did something like this:
Code:idiot@host:> pwd
/opt/bin
idiot@host:> ls /var/log
file1 file2 file3
Ah that's all garbage I thought, next thing:
Code:idiot@host:> rm -rf
Oh dear....
Oops. You'd have to earn a top of attaboys to make up for that one if it was a shared system
If it was a solo system you might get away with claiming a corrupt file system forced you to reformat the disk. That wasn't an uncommon event in the good old days.
Regards,
Kent
Thankfully it was a cluster, so I managed to copy it back from another node...
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Robert
Robert