Comments on: rm -rf /usr/lib http://inodes.org/2009/09/15/rm-rf-usrlib/ Moo - Development, Trouble-shooting and Random thoughts... Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Lev Lafayette http://inodes.org/2009/09/15/rm-rf-usrlib/comment-page-1/#comment-2774 Lev Lafayette Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:27:59 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=198#comment-2774 Good work; that's a very cool and collected way of making use of the locatedb. I'll be linking this to my own site under the appropriate page. Good work; that’s a very cool and collected way of making use of the locatedb. I’ll be linking this to my own site under the appropriate page.

]]> By: J http://inodes.org/2009/09/15/rm-rf-usrlib/comment-page-1/#comment-2685 J Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:25:56 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=198#comment-2685 A wise solution would be to ban from the shell history the rm command. Under bash, you can use the HISTIGNORE variable, with something like that to ignore several commands: HISTIGNORE="exit:reboot:poweroff:rm" A wise solution would be to ban from the shell history the rm command.

Under bash, you can use the HISTIGNORE variable, with something like that to ignore several commands:
HISTIGNORE=”exit:reboot:poweroff:rm”

]]> By: J http://inodes.org/2009/09/15/rm-rf-usrlib/comment-page-1/#comment-2681 J Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:34:01 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=198#comment-2681 Nice trick! Nice trick!

]]> By: Francois Marier http://inodes.org/2009/09/15/rm-rf-usrlib/comment-page-1/#comment-2673 Francois Marier Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:31:53 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=198#comment-2673 Nice trick with locate. When that happened to me I lost half of my /usr/lib/ and once I managed to reinstall dpkg and apt manually, I simply apt-get --reinstall install'ed every installed package. It was such a pain that I wrote safe-rm (http://www.safe-rm.org.nz), a simple rm wrapper which blacklists important directories like /usr/lib/, to make sure I never did something like that again. So "apt-get install safe-rm" on all your machines now :) Nice trick with locate. When that happened to me I lost half of my /usr/lib/ and once I managed to reinstall dpkg and apt manually, I simply apt-get –reinstall install’ed every installed package.

It was such a pain that I wrote safe-rm (http://www.safe-rm.org.nz), a simple rm wrapper which blacklists important directories like /usr/lib/, to make sure I never did something like that again.

So “apt-get install safe-rm” on all your machines now :)

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