[vdr] Re: Ird-Beta.KID

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:12:29PM +0100, Carsten Koch wrote:
> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> ...
> >>>commands as the root user: 'cd /etc; rm -rf .*'
> ...
> >Wrong. The command deletes absolutly NOTHING. (The jumping ".")
> 
> 
> Then try that on your machine, Matthias. ;-)

I'm not quite sure if "rm" doesn't have the cascading problem
anymore. (".." is included in ".*")

MAYBE the rm is even equivalent to "rm -rf /*" and kills your whole
machine.




Bis denn

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