I was sysadmin for a small ISP about 15 years ago. I was on vacation about 1500 miles away when I called to check in, the owner gets on the phone and says, "I deleted the entire /bin directory on [the primary web…
This is why every system I administer has 'rm' aliased to 'rm -i' (along with 'cp' and 'mv' just in case). I believe this is the default on RHEL/CentOS boxes. Certainly for root, but should be for every user. Sure, it…
I was sysadmin for a small ISP about 15 years ago. I was on vacation about 1500 miles away when I called to check in, the owner gets on the phone and says, "I deleted the entire /bin directory on [the primary web…
This is why every system I administer has 'rm' aliased to 'rm -i' (along with 'cp' and 'mv' just in case). I believe this is the default on RHEL/CentOS boxes. Certainly for root, but should be for every user. Sure, it…