On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 12:39:38PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 12:21, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote: > > > > I'm sure all of us have done, if not this, something equally embarrassing > > > like posting a private reply to an email or doing dd with the wrong > > > destination, etc. > > > > > > I'm a ten-finger-typer, and I rarely look at the keyboard. Which is a bad > > thing > > when your focus is on the wrong terminal. So a few years ago I happened to > > type > > "ssh root at some-remote-server.com <ENTER> <ROOTPASSWORD> <ENTER>", vaguely > > sensed in the corner of my eye that something was wrong and discovered to > > my > > horror that I just posted it on a densely populated IRC channel. That's a popular one. There's even an instance of it on bash.org, though in that case, they fooled a new comer into thinking that everone saw his password as ****. > > > 2 am clean up of disk space to get email servers working again > discover a large tree of temp files from a shared service in /usr/<account > name> # remember before /home? > /bin/rm -rf . /* > ^c > up-arrow > spew coffee and swearing > go get reinstall cdrom and backup tapes Yup that has to count as mine. We had a FreeBSD server and back in older days, you used to do rm -rf /usr/obj before doing a buildworld. The sequence was cd /usr/obj;chflags noschg *, rm -rf * then cd /usr/src and start the build. (I may have that slightly wrong, but that's the idea). So in my case, I did that, and thought, Hrrm, that's taking a long time to remove obj. Then when I got my command prompt back, I did the usual cd /usr/src and saw directory not found. Hrm, thinks I, that's odd. cd /usr ls (shows . and ..) I'd removed the entire /usr directory, and I was fairly new. Fortunately, it was a freshly installed server, I was new to IT and my boss had a sense of humor about it, and even tried to make me feel better by telling me similar stories. That was around 19 years ago, so I laugh now, but sure wasn't laughing then. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6