From: Rogier Wolff (wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl)
Date: 03/10/93


From: wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Subject: Re: Linux Admin Horror Story...
Date: 10 Mar 1993 15:27:04 GMT

kfogel@mark1.cs (Karl Fogel) writes:

>In article <1993Mar4.213038.22740@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) writes:

>>Then the mistake:
>>
>>"rm libc.so.s"
>>
>[deleted]
>>Then that sickening feeling crept up on me and I realized what I had done.
>>Without the library link, nothing was going to run.
>>
>>I couldn't even reboot. I just had to turn the machine off after waiting for
>>it to sync.
>>
> Next time, DON'T WAIT FOR THE SYNC!!! You might be able to
>save yourself if you hit the reboot button really quickly...

Right! Experts only.......

                                                Roger.

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