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Post #AxXbVJN8Cshd2ruuEi by [email protected] |
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What’s the most disturbing, scary linux or unix command you’ve seen or exec… |
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Post #AxXbdQMU6U3j2WTzYu by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft dir 🙀 |
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Post #AxXbgu85sqtKERPY7U by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft removing the french language pack in production.sudo rm -fr / |
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Post #AxXbjKSqwUckUGHFIm by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft update-grub followed by an error message and a no longer booting syst… |
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Post #AxXbk3mETHrd1OgrFw by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft In modern senses, it's always rm -rf $VAR when there's no che… |
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Post #AxXbkubQ4DhqrD2TGC by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft rm -rf /* |
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Post #AxXbmtvtWoAXMKZ3ke by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft rm -rf *done in /lucky we had someone with a root window still open a… |
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Post #AxXbvWYfnsTvTEoZKi by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft rm -rf / (as root) It was entered as a joke, took me a couple of sec… |
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Post #AxXc2MHIQKVzc7wg76 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft curl <random url> | sudo bash |
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Post #AxXc2vGSLRdi7ep0AC by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft rm -rf /oracle/data |
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Post #AxXc6zyokqrHuDVzIO by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft :(){ :|:& };: |
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Post #AxXc85g33eFVrhFxTs by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft kill unresponsive childt |
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Post #AxXc9sjQ9ztwIIgieG by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft sudo dd if=~/something.iso of=/dev/sdb (this was thing after which I … |
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Post #AxXcBwNtYAjoCbbKro by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft reBOOt 👻 |
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Post #AxXcUND6YCG0c8LMEi by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft apt full-upgrade without backups |
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Post #AxXcVGSF9c2xx0qiy8 by [email protected] |
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Many moons ago I wrote a perl script that fetched data from multiple locations … |
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Post #AxXcZvfLsBFcvMCm1Y by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft @catsalad “man kill” |
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Post #AxXccVvW1lFXxozwQq by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft rm -rf *, while root, in the root directory, about 2 seconds after I … |
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Post #AxXck4k2z5kPy4EuAa by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft first week on the job as an intern at a navy research lab. lead rese… |
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Post #AxXclgbfgmSxh35czw by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft dd if=somefile of=/dev/sdbWait, why is *that* disk lighting up? |
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Post #AxXcmN8PZRbvakjMrQ by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Firmware/BIOS upgrades with custom options, where if I typoed one thi… |
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Post #AxXd9lulbbr56cVSXg by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft gcloud init |
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Post #AxXdDzWiwCIaTvGxRQ by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft rm -rf / |
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Post #AxXdRNQNOkOQMagbmS by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft @catsalad I run restorecon -Rv / all the time. |
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Post #AxXehqRJO8q4wJXYAa by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Command - too many, but the most scary thing I ever typed was:'ye… |
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Post #AxXfEZG8HkUdDCulwO by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft not a Unix command but a SQL command:ALTER TABLESPACE temp ADD TEMPFI… |
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Post #AxXfuCN7lmfeOJ2Ifg by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft shutdown -hP now at 03:00 on the remote access concentrator instead o… |
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Post #AxXgBJlxVXxoGZocBU by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft cowsay "boo" |
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Post #AxXhQQ9eA56WMFf1jk by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft A conglomeration of distributed ksh scripts which used sendmail + pro… |
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Post #AxXhnOcc1iOEGSAGaO by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft it was during my early career where I was configuring the firewalls a… |
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Post #AxXhtPw03iWo4b6W5g by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft sudo chmod 777 -r / |
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Post #AxXqZmwpgXPbFBD03U by [email protected] |
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@nixCraftA script that executed some command, waited for it to end and then exe… |
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Post #AxXqZy4KL0wVjbndlQ by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft xargs |
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Post #AxXqcTlFTgNGbc4bgW by [email protected] |
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@aiyion @nixCraft I did accidently arm -rf /usr as root one time ... 😵Had wa… |
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Post #AxXqrJTK0ygN2QlHTE by [email protected] |
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@backupbear shell bombing was effective in both AIX 3 and HPUX. |
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Post #AxXqv6frXRLYVNR78y by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I missed hyphen before name in a find command. `find . name -delete` |
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Post #AxXrih4H13OFZGV0yG by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft i remember a time when i messed up the mounting of the root folder in… |
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Post #AxXrzxMhfzuL2HLqFc by [email protected] |
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@nixCraftFixing other people's bugs gives you dopamine.Fixing your own bugs… |
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Post #AxXs8ZnQfsZyXnxj2u by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft dd if=u-boot.bin of=/dev/rsd1i ...always check your disk numbers ;~) |
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Post #AxXsAQFN9KfTVTueQa by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft sudo or just ran as root rm -rf /& after it took forever I ran ls… |
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Post #AxXsMOsi3J18kM1Xl2 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft cd nuts |
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Post #AxXsTdyaKRVNabE4ki by [email protected] |
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@atomicbird info howtogetawaywithit |
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Post #AxXskp2eRMYupcJrRw by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Many moons ago on a SunOS machine the new guy was trying to get some … |
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Post #AxXulqb2LUZlqp1Gee by [email protected] |
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That time when Steam ran rm -rf /* if you moved a game directory from its defau… |
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Post #AxXxbFIGTuIL7osKiu by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft 25 (?) years ago I wrote a perl script to download Dilbert comic to a… |
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Post #AxY8EZhVXbTlFh4hMG by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I‘m old enough to remember the XFree86 config mode lines that could… |
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Post #AxYJI32C2DBgaqboRM by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft # curl https://..... | shOne still sees this pattern as The Install R… |
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Post #AxYJoRfzx498HmfxGS by [email protected] |
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@mira @nixCraft This right here. |
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Post #AxYJsBuYVZdoY7GrAG by [email protected] |
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@anopka @nixCraft |
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Post #AxYJsC0a9ASgqo5fYe by [email protected] |
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@mvilain To have on an anything, really. |
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Post #AxYJsR8Dv2UFkqmU3E by [email protected] |
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@ljrk @nixCraft I would love to hear more about this because it sounded so curs… |
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Post #AxYKEECWfvfY1QBUp6 by [email protected] |
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@markd @nixCraft We had a developer with root permissions delete a shared objec… |
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Post #AxYKR3XbcVuEj1A3YO by [email protected] |
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@mvilain @nixCraft Sysadmins and root access can sure be an "interesting&q… |
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Post #AxYKvuLhqU3hC5J464 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft rm -rf /"$env" |
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Post #AxYL2wJIx5CXItXIsy by [email protected] |
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@SonstHarmlos @nixCraftFunny thing about that. In 1991, I had a teacher who tol… |
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Post #AxYL2wPKag1PbaM7HM by [email protected] |
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@leeloo @nixCraft Just found out that you could already buy a TFT display (14,5… |
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Post #AxYNMbkZIuORElnLU0 by [email protected] |
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@SonstHarmlos @nixCraftIt's even in color.There were 386 laptops with monoc… |
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Post #AxYR67CVWA2jfoFpE8 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraftThat brings a secondary poll :Generally, what part is the most rewardi… |
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Post #AxYT4zNZJRND2A1E6y by [email protected] |
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@patlikestechnology @nixCraft Nope, the first :'-DIIRC it had something to … |
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Post #AxYZqyoVJlpyu9suiO by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft chown -R myname:myname /*Done by a clueless tech author (username: my… |
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Post #AxYa2FcHBaOECeXWCW by [email protected] |
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@cstross @nixCraft I anticipage breakage, interesting in the Chinese sense |
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Post #AxYa4bk7tHQ5PHKqhs by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft iptables commands |
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Post #AxYaF4L4QW0AzVbVFw by [email protected] |
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@pitrh @nixCraft The breakage was random, progressive, and entertaining (FSVO &… |
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Post #AxYaPU2zhLNtcW7Blg by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft wget -O [some url] | sh |
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Post #AxYdxuKYmdX8qRRBSq by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick --write coreboot.bin |
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Post #AxYmlwkIsRa2Rpqlhg by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft all the horrible "wget ... | sudo bash" that are all the hy… |
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Post #AxYt6SxtOcTXtHNFZI by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft tar xvf /dev/tape very_important_file When trying to archive the impo… |
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Post #AxZ6Gy1o3duIWzXgP2 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I forget the commands (I don't use Debian any more), but it was w… |
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Post #AxZ9G0MMCgo7KpO59E by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft The obvious one is `sudo rm -rf /*` - but at least is was entirely in… |
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Post #AxZA2zq8vMAJufgFiS by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft `sed /etc/ld.so.conf`(in bygone days when there was actually somethin… |
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Post #AxZCpIks6MbINwNOAi by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft The worst one I've done, by accident, was/lib # rm -rf modules/2.… |
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Post #AxZDlemONBZLUMugqW by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft a security expert ran a find script which removed any suid and sgid b… |
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Post #AxZEFRmxEmTRsyNieO by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft "killall ps -ef | grep -w process_name"Seems like exactly t… |
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Post #AxZFuWyGyPwpmnpV5M by [email protected] |
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@nixCraftNot my doing, but I dealt with the aftermath)A $TEMPDIR capitalization… |
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Post #AxZKHxBE5xDFY5JSaW by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft sudo chmod 777 recursive on /. I dont even want to type the command c… |
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Post #AxZQBEtwPQQoCxPRya by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft we successfully recovered a customer without data loss who did chown … |
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Post #AxZQquibq2jbm5yt3w by [email protected] |
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@admitsWrongIfProven @nixCraft well, it starts alphabetically via the glibc col… |
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Post #AxZQquphPgPE85IY76 by [email protected] |
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@siim I don't have many details, but can confirm /etc was gone. @nixCraft |
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Post #AxZUY6lnCuc9Swl4ro by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft cc -std=c90 |
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Post #AxZgnAnnhDdZlXeCq8 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft from unreliable memory, something likemv /usr/lib/libstdc.so /usr/lib… |
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Post #AxaK8aamttla2ulPUG by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Some friends once played a mean prank on an admin they didn't lik… |
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Post #AxaWMoj2LkstNoAmy8 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraftSomething like rm -rf * where one of the files to delete was a symlink… |
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Post #Axb32mhNTMoxnDS6QC by [email protected] |
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@cstross @pitrh @nixCraft in a class a student was curious what would actually … |
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Post #AxbYxyFYIMhKhgBZT6 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft apt-get install systemd |
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Post #AxfVcjKP3YEf74TTWK by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft The NTP server was down and I issued:sudo date <date string>The… |
