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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony A. Datri)
- Subject: Re: Amusing Sun Anecdote
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- References: <1993Jan26.133055.6231@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:57:20 GMT
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- >The real problems arose for those sysadmins who wrote root crontab
- >scripts performing particularly enthusiastic recursive removals of
- >any junk in /tmp ... resulting in filesystems being deleted apparently
- >at random, literally overnight.
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- I saw this happen in a previous life when the users of a certain machine
- insisted on exporting filesystems with -anon=0.
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