Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:27:45PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dmitry Karasik wrote:
> 
> > I just wonder, if 'rm' is so fearful to you, why bother changing rm(1)?
> > Write a simple wrapper around, as many sysadmins do for their needs, and
> > use it instead of rm.
> 
> Precisely.
> 
> This is -hackers; why do we need to be protected from ourselves?

All the world is not -hackers.

Ceri
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