RPM's
Johnathan Bailes
johnathan.bailes at gmail.com
Sun Jan 9 04:55:20 UTC 2005
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:43:01 -0700, James McKenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Yep, about the same as typing in rm -rf * as root at \ (root directory).
>
> Actually, this is a very bad way of removing core files. One should do
> the find and redirect it to a list file. Read through the file to
> insure that no needed files are there (someone once named a critical
> executable core) before running the rm command.
>
> James McKenzie
>
I didn't do it. (I say with a Bart Simpson reflex kicking in.)
But I think everyone has learned the lesson of removing something,
somewhere, somehow as root that they wish they had not especially
early on in our *Nix experience.
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