| Doug Stewart on 22 May 2012 12:44:19 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] toy story2 nearly lost with rm* |
I blame autocorrect. It apparently doesn't like rm. -- Doug Stewart On May 22, 2012, at 3:36 PM, bergman@merctech.com wrote: > In the message dated: Tue, 22 May 2012 15:07:01 EDT, > The pithy ruminations from Doug Stewart on > <Re: [PLUG] toy story2 nearly lost with rm*> were: > => > => > => Which is why you should always alias rm to "rn -i" for root. > > > I completely agree, and I do exactly the same thing. > > Whenever I'm working as root, I'd be much happier reading Usenet news, and > it's much safer for all my users' data. Sure, it has taken a bit of effort > for me to keep porting the "rn" binary to newer OS releases machines since > "rn" development stopped about 1995, but that just shows how important > it is to use the One True Newsreader, not that heretical step-child "trn". > > By the way, have you found a way to get gopher to work with that new "https" > protocol? > > Thanks, > > Mark "the 'rn' user's meeting is held at 4PM on the last Friday every leap year" Bergman > > => > => -- > => Doug Stewart > => > => On May 22, 2012, at 2:45 PM, drew craig <axcraig@gmail.com> wrote: > => > => > Hi all, I brought this little story up in our meeting last evening. The l= > => ink goes to Linux Today. > => >=20 > => > pixars toy story2 nearly lost because of a linux command > => >=20 > => > --=20 > => > drew > => > __________________________________________________________________________= > => _ > => > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.or= > => g > => > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announc= > => e > => > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plu= > => g > => > => --Apple-Mail-7BE4C20A-8918-45C6-A160-6C93D75C39A2 > => Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > => Content-Type: text/html; > => charset=utf-8 > => > => <html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Which is why you should always alias rm to "rn - > => i" for root. <br><br>--<div>Doug Stewart</div></div><div><br>On May 22, 2012, at 2:45 PM, d > => rew craig <<a href="mailto:axcraig@gmail.com";>axcraig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div>< > => div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all, I brought this little story up in our meeting las > => t evening. The link goes to Linux Today.<br><br><a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_mana > => gement/pixars-toy-story-2-was-nearly-lost-because-of-a-linux-command.html">pixars toy story2 nea > => rly lost because of a linux command</a><br clear="all"> > => <br>-- <br><font color="#333333"><i>drew</i></font><br> > => </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>__________________________________________ > => _________________________________</span><br><span>Philadelphia Linux Users Group &nb > => sp; -- <a href="http://ww > => w.phillylinux.org">http://www.phillylinux.org</a></span><br><span>Announcements - <a href="http: > => //lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce">http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/lis > => tinfo/plug-announce</a></span><br><span>General Discussion -- <a href="http:// > => lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug">http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug< > => /a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html> > => --Apple-Mail-7BE4C20A-8918-45C6-A160-6C93D75C39A2-- > => > => --===============0028473133== > => Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > => MIME-Version: 1.0 > => Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > => Content-Disposition: inline > => > => ___________________________________________________________________________ > => Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > => Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > => General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > => > => --===============0028473133==-- > => > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug