OT moment of doubt 2005-06-15 - By Peter McLarty
I know the feeling I did my moment when I was using the root account
(hey I was sysadmin as well) and did the following
cd $DIR
rm -rf
only problem was $DIR wasn't a populated variable
I developed a lot of admiration for Unix that day. I never knew it
before then that it could still run albeit a bit crippled for most of a
day with a bunch of files missing.
Cheer
Jared Still wrote:
> I neglected to give it a name, as requested.
> I'm really not sure what to call it.
>
> But when I do something like that, there is at times a brief
> feeling of anxiety that I've screwed it up, regardless of
> how much testing I've done.
>
> If I am *sure* I've screwed it up, the anxiety is followed
> by a head to toe tingling, and involuntary contraction of
> several muscles best not discussed here.
>
> Jared
>
>
> On 6/15/05, Jared Still <jkstill@(protected)> wrote:
>
>>Every time I do it.
>>
>>When using a command like that, I usually check
>>it with ls first, then modify the command.
>>
>>eg.
>>
>>ls -l *.dbf
>>
>>If that gets the expected results, I will then call up
>>the command line history and replace the 'ls -l'
>>with 'rm -f'.
>>
>>This not only ensures the results are what I expect,
>>but avoids fat fingering that occur if the entire command
>>is retyped:
>>
>>eg. rm -f * .dbf
>>
>>Notice the space between * and .dbf.
>>
>>Jared
>>
>>
>>
>>On 6/15/05, Joe <nigel.tufnel1@(protected)> wrote:
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>>>What would you call that moment in time after you do "rm *.dbf" on all
>>>your database files, where you suddenly panic about whther you're on
>>>the right server or not?
>>>
>>>This happens to me all the time, even after checking, even after 17
>>>yrs of DBA-ing. Kinda like that feeling you get when your chair starts
>>>to tip over backwards but you catch yourself.
>>>
>>>:P
>>>
>>>Joe
>>>--
>>>http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Jared Still
>>Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>>
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