computing the old way

The one I stupidly did before was when tired and teying to delete some hidden (.directories) from a user folder which led me to the rm -rf .* nugget which picked up on . And .. Obviously after seeing it change to another user directory and start blowing that away also I cancelled it and realized my error. The one I've heard of but never did was I guess userdel with the argument to delete the users home directory. I've read the horror stories when the user was an admin or lazily set up and their home directory was /. The command works as expected :-) Another more funny one was a unix admin who was leaving for another job. He was on his bsd box at his desk and shuttong everything down but he forgot he had sshed into our mail server so his shutdown command which curiously seemed to be taking its time was sitting there and he freaked out when he realized the mistake. He was quite apologetic making sure it didn't look like a disgruntled last move. - John -----Original Message----- From: Mike Loewen <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> Sender: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.orgDate: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:36:56 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts<cctalk at classiccmp.org> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: computing the old way On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Dave McGuire wrote: Okay, hands up all those who have ever done 'rm -r' as root from / Confession: ONCE, on a SunOS system I was loading for a customer. http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/pricelist.html Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/