On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:08:10 +0000, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 7:45 pm, Paul wrote:
Hi Jen
Despite the ribbing and quiet sniggers in the background (stop that iDunno), you have my deepest sympathies on your loss - I too have done some daft things with mount and rm when logged in as root.
Regards, Paul.
Usually I get myself into pickles like that using the always dubious combination of the root password and a bottle of good wine.
One of my rainy day projects (and it would probably have to be a long rainy day) is to somehow interface one of those keyring breathalysers to my PC and set it up so a negative test is a requirement for a successful root login.
That is a splendid idea! I can't blame the wine on this act of foolishness...I was sat at work. The wine came later to drown my sorrows. Perhaps instead of a breathalyser we need a heartbeat detector so if the heart rate is up indicating the user being in too much of a hurry they are blocked.
Thanks for the kind words all. I've got the important bits backed up, will reinstall the reinstallable bits, and have managed to resue the incremental backups of the other servers (too much data there to make backups of the backups so I'm glad I rescued that: will save starting from scratch). Jen