On 14 May 2010 16:59, Tony Schreiner schreian@bc.edu wrote:
please bottom post, more at the bottom ...
On May 14, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Wang, Mary Y wrote:
Thanks for the info. There are only three of us who have the "root" access and I guess the date/time is more important to us. We are also concerned that there might be a script did the "rmdir" unintentionally.
If you have scripts deleting/moving or otherwise playing around with the filesystems you might want to double check they are null safe for variables that end up filenames...
example:
#!/bin/bash MYFILE=$1 scp ${MYFILE} me@backup: rm -fr ./${MYFILE}
Very basic but illustrates the point.... if the bash argument (in this case) was invalid or missed out somehow the result could be the removal of the entire PWD. This only gets worse with absolute paths (oops bye bye /) and more complicated setups... when quickly scripting it is also something that often gets overlooked....
James