> From: Me
> To: Gary
> Subject: Holy crap…
>
> $ rm -r /cvs
> rm: remove write-protected regular file
> ‘/cvs/foobar/Attic/DateComparator.java,v’?
> ^C
>
> Can you help me figure out how much damage I did?
>
> -Jay
For those who don’t know, CVS is a program used for storing source code. An entire development department’s source code is usually stored in a single directory. And “rm -r” nukes entire directories (and all subdirectories).
Someone up there must like me, because that “write-protected file” was the very first thing it hit, and I cancelled it immediately. Otherwise, it would have nuked the entire department’s work (for the day, at least). In Gary’s words, they would have had to string me up.
jdredd5150 | 03-Jan-06 at 2:15 pm | Permalink
heh. yeah, we’ve got a file in most of our subvolumes that’s got a nigh on undeletable security level to prevent these very things from happening. 3 times in 2 months of someone purging our whole client database subvol was slightly upsetting.