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Matt

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Can you stuff up your system in terminal? What are the do's and do nots? :confused:

Thnks ;)
 
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Assuming by stuff up you mean screw up, yes.
DO get a book on linux.
DO NOT type rm -rf / ,that will erase your drive.
Is there a particular thing you need help with?
 
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cradom said:
Assuming by stuff up you mean screw up, yes.
DO get a book on linux.
DO NOT type rm -rf / ,that will erase your drive.
Is there a particular thing you need help with?
Ahh the days on red hat where I accidently unmounted the drive and fsck'ed it Oh what fun!
 
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I made a thread about it before, but i'm getting help on another forum with it. I am tring to port a UNIX client to Mac OS X. :)

No help needed ;)
 
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Many years ago, I was once called to repair a system that someone had typed rm -rf in the root directory. They thought they were in /tmp - a simple mistake. The consquense of this mistake was 12 hours of empty cargo jumbo jets flying around the world as this was the cargo handling and customs clearance system. Without this, cargo stayed in sheds but the aeroplanes had to keep to their schedule.

Be very careful with your root account.
 
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Any time you want information on a command, type man (command)
 
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Matt said:
Can you stuff up your system in terminal? What are the do's and do nots? :confused:

Thnks ;)
basically, if youre not sure or dont know, dont mess with it.
 
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man man

i miss the simple jokes...

system:~ user$bill gates
bill not found, kill gates?
 

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