Re: [Hampshire] error competition

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Author: Vic
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] error competition

> who can do the most damage to a system with the fewest number of
> keystrokes?


root@goliath # mount /dev/sda12 /mnt/whatthehellisthis
root@goliath # rm -rf /mnt/whatthehellisthis/*
root@goliath # mount | grep var
/dev/sda12 on /var type ext3 (rw)

> Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say "I did ..."


Yep. I did. On a RHL8 system, where all the package management stuff lives
in /var. To this day, I am still finding unpackaged binaries of great
vintage...

Vic.