[TUHS] hello, world

Ori Idan ori at helicontech.co.il
Wed Dec 28 20:16:50 AEST 2011


On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Michael Davidson <m_d at pacbell.net> wrote:

> --- On *Mon, 12/26/11, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org>* wrote:
>
>  A question though: what command would "bring the system down"?
>
> Well, if you are logged in as root the possibilities are almost endless,
> the classic one being:
>
> # rm -rf *
>
> run from the root directory. Strictly speaking, of course, that doesn't
> "bring the system down" but there really isn't much that you can do with
> the system after running it ...
>
>
>
> That's reminds me of an accident happened to a friend who try making some
order on his computer and since he did not know exactly what a file named
unix is doing, he deleted it. The system worked but of course would not
boot again...

-- 
Ori Idan
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