[nycbug-talk] Safety Expansion for FreeBSD rm(1)

Marc Spitzer mspitzer at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 19:47:43 EDT 2007


On 10/1/07, H. G. <tekronis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/1/07, Marc Spitzer <mspitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/1/07, Peter Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >>>>>> "sk" == Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at exit2shell.com > writes:
> > > >
> > > >     sk> rm that first reads ~/.rm before actually removing anything to
> > > >     sk> make sure that what you are trying to delete isn't "protected"
> > > >
> > > > next you will want to replace vi with vim.
> > > >
> > > nah - real admins use ed/sed/awk/grep in single user mode ;)
> >
> > dd to raw devices to patch system binaries and the kernel during
> > production.  So there.
> >
> > marc
> >
>
> I'm amazed you're even working with a kernel loaded at all.
> Why don't you just do everything from within the bootloader? :p
>

fourth can make you put your socks on over your shoes and think it is
good.  and as I hate buying socks this is to be avoided at all costs.
the only exception to this is hp calculators.

marc
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