[vox] LUGOD member needed for TV interview
donw at examen.com
donw at examen.com
Tue Jul 20 10:59:59 PDT 2004
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:55:52AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
>
> My rule of thumb is: NEVER do anything quickly as root.
Good rule of thumb.
> It's easy to get into the habit of typing in a command and
> pressing Enter, all in one fluid motion. Don't do that!
> Type in the command, then look at it for at least 1-2
> seconds. Then press Enter.
Of, of course! This is why I also echo output of wildcards, or at least
do a tab-complete for things like 'rm document*'; that way, I at least
see every file in the directory that starts with 'document'.
> For what it's worth, I have never wiped out an installation
> by accident.
I did before I started slowing down. *grin* Fortunately, I learned most
of my lessons with 'rm' before starting my actual career as a sysadmin,
so I have yet to blow anything away in a production environment.
--
Don Werve <donw at examen.com> (Unix System Administrator)
Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue,
Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork!
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