Re: stupid admin tricks

[Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org>]

Wim Vandeputte writes:
 > Yes, but you actually have to have experienced it ONCE to know how it
 > feels and *WHY* you should be carefull ;-)
 > 
 > Right Marc? ;-)

Oh, this wasn't the first time... just the first time in the last 5 years
or so.  Seems I have to remind myself exactly how painful such stupid
tricks are about that often.  I should be good until 2005 :-)

And for Marc Espie: the exact sequence was

	$ cd some/old/snapshot/dir
        $ various things
	$ ls usr
	  lib
	$ sudo rm -rf /usr/lib
	<thinks... that's stupid, I want to remove usr, too>
	$ sudo rmdir usr

It's not until the second sudo fails because it can't find a shared lib that 
I took a closer look at the first sudo.

// marc