Subject: RE: UPDATE::RE: Last rites? Eeek!... Multia a.k.a. doorstop?
To: 'Jon Lindgren' <jlindgren@espus.com>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/28/2000 10:23:08
Not positive, believe it was 'rm -r' whilst in the /usr directory... I do
know that I didn't have '/' after it..

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jon Lindgren [SMTP:jlindgren@espus.com]
> Sent:	Friday, April 28, 2000 10:05 AM
> To:	David Woyciesjes
> Cc:	'Port-Alpha (E-mail)'
> Subject:	RE: UPDATE::RE: Last rites? Eeek!... Multia a.k.a. doorstop?
> 
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> 
> > Uh yeah... what seemed to lead to the crash was ' rm -rf', it ran a
> while,
> > the an error msg came up... seems like I overworked it or something?
> This
> > morning I reflashed the SRM console and ARC BIOS, (just to be sure) and
> now
> > I'm about to do a fresh install of NetBSD... We'll see where that leads
> me..
> 
> I sure hope that wasn't a "rm -rf /" :-) (yet another reason to never work
> as 'root'...)
> 
> That would certainly crash things... but it shouldn't prevent the SRM from
> coming up at all.
> 
> -Jon
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