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Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jun 28 22:01:39 IST 2007


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Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>> Life of a admin Jules ;) at least rm -rf / ;)
>
> Yeah, much disk activity until:
> rm: command not found
My worst mistake ever went like this:

for F in long-list-of-hostnames-here
do
  ssh $F mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old
  scp newpasswdfile $F:/etc/passwd
done

Now getting out of that took me the rest of the morning :-(

Jules

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