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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 1997 01:25:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ben Rosengart <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   disastrous bug, probably in pkg_add
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970206012222.11812A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>

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Today I tried to download someone's patch to sendmail for 2.1.5.  It was 
released as a package; so I ran

pkg_add ftp://blahblahblah

However, it was taking a long time, and I wasn't even sure if pkg_add 
supported URLs, and there was no progress indication, so I figured I'd 
fetch it instead; so:

^C
caught signal 2, cleaning up

At which point it deleted my home directory.

I'm *really* steamed.  What the hell happened?



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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