Although not Linux-related, I had to laugh when the MD of the company I'm currently working for launched Adobe Acrobat/Distiller (or whatever spiders a web site to generate PDF pages from it) to follow all the links of a web site we were about to demonstrate the next day. She launched the job in the admin area of the site where the client can add and delete products and successfully managed to nuke the entire database of it's entire product range.
I received a call at 9pm that night to ask, very nicely might I add, if I could restore the database from backup ASAP as she was due to visit the clients in the morning for the demonostration.
D'oh!!!!
Regards,
Martyn
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Neill Newman" neill@entora.co.uk To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [Alug] cron job
Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Shall I share my awful moment with you all? Trying to find the right command to copy a directory to another
directory,
I went to clear the second directory for a second try. So i typed in rm -r ./*
heh, we all do it. when I first started using linux, I was logged in as root and typed
'chmod -Rf 700 .*'
one reinstall later....
Sz
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