Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:30:45 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) Message-ID: <20001019143045.A11393@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <39EE53E0.AC0226FA@home.com>; from Paul Murphy on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:52:32PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150739480.59649-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1001016133315.4098A-100000@utah> <20001017035437.B537@hand.dotat.at> <39EE53E0.AC0226FA@home.com>
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:52:32PM -0400, Paul Murphy wrote: > Been there, done that. I was trying to find and remove '*.core' but I > must have typed '*,core' [note comma]. Finally cought on when I got > error message '/dev is a directory'. Oh well I needed to upgrade to FBSD > 4.1 anyway! I'm a "sudo" style person, myself. My favorite mistake, which I have made at least twice, is along the lines of: $ cd /etc $ something_clever > passwd-new $ sudo mv passwd passwd-old $ sudo mv passwd-new passwd who the hell are you? That can be "non-trivial" to fix without a reboot. :-) -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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