Re: where is the worm ?
From: Ben Measures (saint_abroadremove_at_removehotmail.com)
Date: 01/31/04
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 03:14:21 +0000
Jim Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:11:39 +0000,
> Ben Measures <saint_abroadremove@removehotmail.com> wrote:
>>LOL perhaps not... I've done it to myself recently! Sometime about 3
>>months ago. (:-*
>>
>>Long story, I was clearing some files that had accumulated in /tmp/
>>
>># cd /tmp/
>># ls -a
>>.randomCrap .morestuff ....
>># rm -r .*
>>[... Hmmm, this is taking an awful long time...]
>>
>>After about 30s I panicked and pressed ^C. Bash didn't come back up.
>>Oops. As I said, good fun.
>>
>>Should have heard the laughter in the irc rooms as I told ppl (on
>>another computer) what I had done and asked what my chances were.
>>Managed to repair it in the end tho. Heh, I showed them(!)
>>
>>Seriously though, I had a great time fixing the system. (But I did,
>>mwhahahahaaha.) This is why I like Linux so - I can Fix It (tm).
>
> touch /%NO_DELETE%
> chattr +i /%NO_DELETE%
> touch /.%NO_DELETE%
> chattr +i /.%NO_DELETE%
>
> then try it, rm balks at the non-immutable file, %NO_DELETE% and
> .%NO_DELETE%, stops, since they are among the first ASCII printable
> characters to show up. The ones that show up before %, (!, space, $,
> etc) have some issues that make their use for this, problematic,
> although I suppose you could use a filename consisting of a space in the
> front. Dunno what that might trip up on though.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work for me - I use reiserfs (which makes
the rm command go even faster :D ).
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