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Re: Other IDL / Mac advantages [message #27614 is a reply to message #27517]

Thu, 25 October 2001 08:19

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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GB Smith wrote:
>
> yeahhhh
>
> rm -rf /

Believe it or not that's what was done (not by me though). And the perpetrators were even
logged in as "root" so there was no "are you sure?" message. lordy lordy lordy. I believe it
may have even been related to an early IDL installation (circa 3.5 or 3.6)

> kick it!!!

Oh, it got kicked. There were a number a sore toes and bums after that happened. Luckily I was
simply watching from the sidelines with my recent DAT tape backups in hand...... :o)

paulv

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		Other IDL / Mac advantages By: Wolf Schweitzer on Wed, 24 October 2001 01:16
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