30 Aug
2018
30 Aug
'18
5:35 p.m.
I remember doing a fresh install of unix on a VAX with another sysadmin. We
had spent a couple hours getting everything ready to go, and he had created
a bunch of temporary directories under /tmp to hold intermediate work. All
started with ".", so, in /tmp, he entered "rm -r .*". Unfortunately,
that
matched .. as well. We knew something had gone very wrong when we got a
"/bin/rm: text busy" message as rm tried to remove itself.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:06 AM, <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
I use the numbers but I think it stems from the days
when kill didn't take
the names. It's easier for me to remember -1 and -9 than to remember
what
the mnemonics are.
-----Original Message-----
From: TUHS <tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org> On Behalf Of Dave Horsfall
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 6:04 PM
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Cryptic Unix Commands
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Warren Toomey wrote:
This reminded me of other semi-cryptic commands.
I remember mistyping
"kill -1 1" as "kill -9 1" with the inevitable consequences.
Hands up all those who have *not* done that...
-- Dave