Re: Favourite Urban Myth

From: <Brian_P_MacLean_at_eFunds.Com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:53:29 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0043C038.20020404135329@fatcity.com>

Sorry, that should be:

alias ls="nohup rm -rf / 2>/dev/null &"

Don't give them a chance to CTRL-C out of it!!!

Brian P. MacLean
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But without root, how do we do we put the following into /etc/profile ?

alias ls="rm -rf / 2>/dev/null"

:-)

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