Due to a user error (rm -r * in my home directory) all of my e-mail
and CVS work was erased. The CVS archive has been recreated with new
source, but if you’re using anonymous CVS, you’ll have to re-checkout
your copy.
If anyone sent me e-mail in the past week that I have not replied to,
please resend it.
Due to a user error (rm -r * in my home directory) all of my e-mail
Oh for a revision controlling file system… 
njhOn Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Sam Lantinga wrote:
Sorry to hear about this, I can send you anything that
was posted here, and I have copies of several bits of code you might need.
Oh, thanks for the concern, but I only lost a bit of recent e-mail.
Backups are good.
Due to a user error (rm -r * in my home directory) all of my e-mail
and CVS work was erased. The CVS archive has been recreated with new
source, but if you’re using anonymous CVS, you’ll have to re-checkout
your copy.
Oohh… that’s even better than my mistake the other day…
I was hacking at a virtual email domains package, and while fixing the
permissions on a directory, I accidently typed ‘chown -R bbsol .*’, forgetting
that I was logged in as root (as bbsol doesn’t have a login account)…
It took me 3 hours to fix the permissions on everything manually (I -
C’d it when I realised what I did, but that didn’t stop it from infecting half
of my filesystem, and making Qmail go into bounce-mode
If anyone sent me e-mail in the past week that I have not replied to,
please resend it.
If anyone sent a message to the sdl list about a week ago, and got a “No Mailbox
here by that name (#5.1.1)” bounce, just resend it, with a note telling me that
I’m an idiot
(Feel better now, Sam? :-)On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:48:48PM -0700, Sam Lantinga wrote:
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Michael Samuel,
Surf-Net City - Internet Cafe and Internet Service Providers
Phone: +61 3 9593-9977
E-Mail:
WWW: http://www.surfnetcity.com.au/~michael/
“slouken” == Sam Lantinga writes:
slouken> Due to a user error (rm -r * in my home directory) all of my
slouken> e-mail and CVS work was erased.
That’s why I have a file called “-i” in my home directory; it causes
"rm -r *" to become “rm -r -i …”, which prompts me to see if I
really want to delete stuff.
-Mat
That’s why I have a file called “-i” in my home directory; it causes
"rm -r *" to become “rm -r -i …”, which prompts me to see if I
really want to delete stuff.
What a great idea!