Fretful Porpentine: The Most Dangerous Command

Every person who learns Unix is taught the dangers of the rm command. Among other scary variants is the infamous:

Upon hearing the dire warnings, each person thinks to himself, "I'd never be that stupid." That is, until they end up actually misusing it.

So, ummm, anyone who happened to notice that my website was down for a few hours tonight? Now you know why.

Posted by ksmoker on February 11, 2006 11:37 PM | Permalink

"Who me? - never do that ... " ooops ... oh the joys of development and server maintenance.

In the game with ya!

-Your tireless (or very tired, depending on point of view) web-host

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