lol you *think* so? . . . am I missing something or are you just letting ranodm people run ircds on your boxen?

I had assumed he had 4 ircds running on 4 different irc networks with tons of channel feeds. Heh. :)

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cp apachectl /etc/init.d

@&%#!



PS In case you're wondering "what was he thinking," I got into a bad habit with mv, from the manpage:


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Update:
What the truck? I just cd-ed into /etc/init.d. Everything is back. Is this the work of the linux fairy or what? I've been backing up my files with the intention of wiping clean my linode. Looks like I don't have to. Yippee!

This is why, when I copy or move something into a directory I always put "/." on the end to make it clear that I'm expecting it to be a directory - "cp apachectl /var/init.d/." would do exactly the right thing if the directory existed, but would give an error if it didn't.

[edit: And, oh, I thought you realised the mistake in your post, but given your update, perhaps you didn't. You were copying it to /var/init.d/ , not /etc/init.d/ . You now have a *file* called /var/init.d.]

Ahhh ... I thought I overwrote the important init.d, which would be in /etc. Is there such a thing as /var/init.d? Not such a dumb mistake then, if not. If so, how important is /var/init.d?

I'm relieved ... I think ;->

/var/init.d isn't anything. Move it back to apachectl and you should be fine.

Stupidest thing I've done.
OK, so I've signed up for a free trial license of cPanel ( http://cpanel.net ).
I went and installed it on a LINODE 64.
After slugging through the installation process, a whopping 5% of my bandwidth was consumed, I'm running out of disk space, running out of IO tickets and when idle, the load average was around 6.0. o.o

Moral: cPanel is EVIL! Don't install it.

Well, I remembered seeing this thread here a while ago and reading through it...

5 minutes ago:

root@redbaron:~# rm /etc/*

....that was not fun

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"A train station is where a train stops. A bus station is where a bus stops. On my desk I have a workstation..."

Ouch!

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And if you *really* want to get yourself into trouble:

root@localhost:~# rm -rf /

One of the worst I've done (not on linode though), was something like:

chown -R bones:users .*

as root, intending to alter the ownership of my "dot files" and hidden directories, not realizing it would climb up through the entire file system, changing ownerships (and permissions in some cases) all over the system. :)

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I know rm has protection from doing that at least, I've done the same with other recursive commands.

Time to revisit this thread.

Turns out vim has a nifty trick where you can do like the following:

:wq[stuff]

and it'll write out whatever you've got as "[stuff]" instead of whatever the original file was. Note: this only works for certain filenames, the choices of which can be incredibly absurd as you will soon see.

Well, I was working on a file marked read-only, and went to write it out, which to those who don't know, is done with the good old "do it anyhow" wildcard also known as an exclamation point (!) or "bang." Only I missed the bang and hit kablooey instead(Note: CWD was /root/):
Vim dutifully told me

"~" 235L, 7843C written

Uh-oh. Well, this was fun, and here I was straight out of the gym in the morning without so much as a cup of coffee to prop up my endorphin-spun brain cells.

Clickety-linkety to behold the horror that almost happened next:
http://www.taupehat.com/images/misc/pathexpansion.jpg

After I studied that one, I literally smacked my forehead, having come within a fraction of pulling the classic unix blunder. Oh well And yes, I did get rid of the silly file.

I have rdiffed backwards and removed /bin and some of /dev before the server somewhat crashed.

Had to boot another distro and copy /bin and /dev back over, booted it up and worked perfectly.

could never have done it without help from #linode =)

Thanks,
Smark