[olug] To Sudo or Not to Sudo, That is the Question

[T. J. Brumfield]

As I posted in another thread, when I was doing my first gentoo setup
I managed to hose a box logged in as root, but it taught me a valuable
lesson about setting up good bash aliases since then.

I was typing "rm -rf /etc" and never got to the next slash.  I hit enter.

-- T. J.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>wrote:
>
>> history.  I haven't hosed a system running as root, but I've come
>
>
> The only times I've truely hosed a system would be back in the 2.0 kernel
> days.
>
> Remotely, I did an mtu change once...that ended badly.  Note to include the
> 'mtu' word when doing an ifconfig mtu change or you'll eat the ip address
> assigned to said interface :).  Power cycle fixed it, but... still :).
>
> -Will
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