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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-01-26 12:42 pm
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briefly striking fear into my heart

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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2004-01-27 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, it occurs to me that the scenario could have been worse. If the working directory was /bin when the rm command failed, you just lost /bin, and the tools for restoration are generally in /sbin. If the script was running as root on a non-Linux system, however, and had simply been running in the default directory for a cron job, i.e. the owner's home directory, i.e. /...

[identity profile] bitpuddle.livejournal.com 2004-01-27 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yes -- I forgot the best part. The script, of course, ran as root.