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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-28 10:16 UTC|newest]

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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