[NCLUG] Why not Root?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:22:25PM -0600, John L. Bass wrote:
>the * while doing that. The first form taking out the entire directory,
>and replacing it if needed is FAR safer.

Agreed.  I've also seen that happen where a user did "rm -rf /path/to /*".
And then apparently just ignored the fact that it started spewing error
messages.

Sean
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