From: ori@helicontech.co.il (Ori Idan)
Subject: [TUHS] hello, world
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:16:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACyhTRE7te5zRVKdKh_XVF6DhE5mfMQKB+3kXSZFmnPXD6qh1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324934923.37156.YahooMailClassic@web82402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Michael Davidson <m_d at pacbell.net> wrote:
> --- On *Mon, 12/26/11, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org>* wrote:
>
> A question though: what command would "bring the system down"?
>
> Well, if you are logged in as root the possibilities are almost endless,
> the classic one being:
>
> # rm -rf *
>
> run from the root directory. Strictly speaking, of course, that doesn't
> "bring the system down" but there really isn't much that you can do with
> the system after running it ...
>
>
>
> That's reminds me of an accident happened to a friend who try making some
order on his computer and since he did not know exactly what a file named
unix is doing, he deleted it. The system worked but of course would not
boot again...
--
Ori Idan
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-25 13:10 Norman Wilson
2011-12-26 21:11 ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-26 21:15 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-26 21:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-12-26 21:53 ` Armando Stettner
2011-12-26 22:13 ` Michael Davidson
2011-12-26 21:28 ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-27 1:08 ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-26 21:28 ` Michael Davidson
2011-12-28 0:13 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-12-28 0:20 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-28 7:34 ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-28 10:16 ` Ori Idan [this message]
2011-12-27 6:11 ` Adam
2012-01-04 3:37 ` Cyrille Lefevre
[not found] ` <Pine.BSI.4.64.1112271711290.603@dave.horsfall.org>
2011-12-27 18:01 ` Tim Newsham
2011-12-28 0:53 ` Corey Lindsly
2011-12-28 10:54 ` asbesto
2011-12-28 18:32 ` John Cowan
[not found] <mailman.1.1325037601.24307.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2011-12-28 20:56 ` David Barto
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