On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Hello.
> > I log to new account of RedHat 8.0 and do
> > cd /
> > for x in `find . -name "*"` ; do /bin/rm $x; done
> > See I am UNIX Expert NO?
> >
> > After, I cant log in?
> > How do get back all after /?
>
> Hmmm.
> rm -rf *
> Should do the same(*) but with much better speed.
>
> Normaly the system should lockup at sometime while doing it.
>
>
>
>
> *: OK. The version above will "break" in the middle after "/bin/rm" (or
> "/lib/libc.so.6") got deleted.
>
>
The mysterious thing is the message didn't come from this site!
User johnson didn't log onto that machine since yesterday as
the enclosed `typescript` will show. It's obviously some kind
of joke, but I think this means I could be blamed for sending
something the "Net Nazis" would dislike.
It's not hard to clone a header, but this header does not look
cloned...
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.
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