A man accidentally deleted his entire company with " rm -rf "
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Well, the Linux command is small news If your business has no backups, redundancy, in place to survive a typo, then that is a huge liability and failure.
He had the backups
To top it all off, Marsala even deleted his backups. He did have offsite backups but he had just connected to the provider and mounted the drives to his computer for access. This gave the command access to the offsite backup server too, letting it wipe its contents alongside everything else.
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He had the backups
To top it all off, Marsala even deleted his backups. He did have offsite backups but he had just connected to the provider and mounted the drives to his computer for access. This gave the command access to the offsite backup server too, letting it wipe its contents alongside everything else.
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Linux deadliest command event. It seems this man run the command and deleted the entire data on server that hosted more than 1000 websites. What do you think is it bad luck or neglecting his work? A man deleted his entire company with one line of code - Business Insider[^]
> rm -rf Leslie
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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> rm -rf Leslie
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
That will remove nothing. Leslie's been removed twice already.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Linux deadliest command event. It seems this man run the command and deleted the entire data on server that hosted more than 1000 websites. What do you think is it bad luck or neglecting his work? A man deleted his entire company with one line of code - Business Insider[^]
Ajit Hegde wrote:
What do you think is it bad luck or neglecting his work?
Neither. He exposed a vulnerability which should never have existed. His chain of command should be purged of the obvious dead wood.
Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Linux deadliest command event. It seems this man run the command and deleted the entire data on server that hosted more than 1000 websites. What do you think is it bad luck or neglecting his work? A man deleted his entire company with one line of code - Business Insider[^]
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Linux deadliest command event. It seems this man run the command and deleted the entire data on server that hosted more than 1000 websites. What do you think is it bad luck or neglecting his work? A man deleted his entire company with one line of code - Business Insider[^]
Either he used an obsolete version of the shell or the "news" is related to the Roman Republic becoming an Empire. It's ages that rm -rf doesn't follow the ".." link.
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Linux deadliest command event. It seems this man run the command and deleted the entire data on server that hosted more than 1000 websites. What do you think is it bad luck or neglecting his work? A man deleted his entire company with one line of code - Business Insider[^]
Lots of good points made in the article however one extra thing I do, to be as safe as possible when using command line maintenance, is to write out everything in something like notepad first so that I can go through and check what the commands are. Then I just copy and paste in the commands, typing a command in realtime carries a lot of risks with it if you accidentally press the enter key. Similarly in sql updates - ensuring that the 'where' clause is not on a separate line also prevents accidentally running a delete on everything.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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That will remove nothing. Leslie's been removed twice already.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
I doubt that! Somebody would have mentioned it here in The Lounge! :doh:
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He had the backups
To top it all off, Marsala even deleted his backups. He did have offsite backups but he had just connected to the provider and mounted the drives to his computer for access. This gave the command access to the offsite backup server too, letting it wipe its contents alongside everything else.
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Linux deadliest command event. It seems this man run the command and deleted the entire data on server that hosted more than 1000 websites. What do you think is it bad luck or neglecting his work? A man deleted his entire company with one line of code - Business Insider[^]
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Lots of good points made in the article however one extra thing I do, to be as safe as possible when using command line maintenance, is to write out everything in something like notepad first so that I can go through and check what the commands are. Then I just copy and paste in the commands, typing a command in realtime carries a lot of risks with it if you accidentally press the enter key. Similarly in sql updates - ensuring that the 'where' clause is not on a separate line also prevents accidentally running a delete on everything.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Linux deadliest command event. It seems this man run the command and deleted the entire data on server that hosted more than 1000 websites. What do you think is it bad luck or neglecting his work? A man deleted his entire company with one line of code - Business Insider[^]