[Mageia-dev] [Bug 8177] rm command can't delete file, unless using the full path for the rm binary "/bin/rm"

[Pierre Jarillon]

Le jeudi 22 novembre 2012 23:10:51, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
> Le 22/11/2012 20:11, Anne Wilson a écrit :
> > I know someone else who said that :-)  Then one day I was standing
> > beside him when he hit Enter, and.... "Sh...." - yes, he'd wiped the lot.
> 
> The world of unix admins is divided in two categories: those who already
> mistyped an rm command, and the others.

A joke; To change the localization of all the distro from english to french: 
# rm -fr *

A real mistake made by a unix administrator on his workstation:
He mounted with nfs a distant machine in /tmp and puts the instruction in 
/etc/fstab. He does his job. Everything was working fine and the remote machine 
was setup in production... Some days later, he reboot his workstation.
The boot was long, very long... The reason was that rm -rf /tmp/* was done at 
each boot !

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