i've done it... it was fun until i realised that the dir i was in actually
had a file which was symlinked to '/' ... which... wasn't very pretty heh,
i've also had /etc/passwd erased by a few friends who didn't know what
they were doing... that... hurt hEH! ... so... hrrm, yeah! just thought
i'd stop lurking and a reason came up! so like... uhm... bye!()!@#* HEHE!

- sigterm
Dead Protocol Society
"Waking up with a hangover and a rootshell since 1970"

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Simon Baker wrote:

> On a more humourous note, how many people on this list would admit to 
> doing rm -rf .* ???
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:57:58 +0100 (BST)
> From: Simon Baker <simonb@arien.ukerna.ac.uk>
> To: Robert Schmid <robert@ancept.com>
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Oh My... /etc is GONE! 
> 
> Here's a thought.  It's quite unusual that it would just 'entirely' 
> disappear, so why not do a find for, say inetd.conf.  That should sort 
> you out....or so I'd hope ;()
> 
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> 
> > Robert Schmid <robert@ancept.com>  wrote:
> >  > I was trying to install a package using pkg_add when I realized I was in
> >  > /etc instead of /.  So I CTRL-C out and switched to /.  Suddenly /etc was
> >  > gone.  Someone please tell me this was a disk error that will be magically
> >  > fixed on reboot somehow.
> >  > 
> >  > If not - how did I do this?  Is there anyway to recover without
> >  > reinstalling a new /etc directory?
> > 
> > beats me 'what happened' but /var/backups is your friend.
> > 
> > 
> 
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