Put Himself Out of Business With One Line of Bad Code

[Pib]

Marco Marsala had a very bad day. The proprietor of a small hosting service may have accidentally put himself out of business with a single line of bad code. Read the story here.

[KhunBENQ]

rm -rf

The results were not what he expected.

But perfectly well.

A Unix/Linux shell is for the tough ones only

Anyone care for a Windows equivalent?

always backup your data.

And please don't leave it on a connected media.

Edited April 15, 2016 by KhunBENQ

[lostinisaan]

rm -rf

The results were not what he expected.

But perfectly well.

A Unix/Linux shell is for the tough ones only

Anyone care for a Windows equivalent?

always backup your data.

And please don't leave it on a connected media.

Would be nice to use "rm -rf," and delete whole mo.. threads on this forum.

[Chicog]

I feel sorry for that feller if it's true.

P45 Bomber incoming!

[innerspace]

Lol... Can sympathise.

Once missed the "." on an "rm - r ./*" due to a dodgy keyboard and took a few too many seconds to realise and ctrl+c.

Did get the server back alive and ran for a year after!

[manarak]

okay, who is in the server business and never did something very very stupid please raise your hand !

...

thought so.

the guy's primary fault was, contrary to what is written on dailydot, to not have made a clean backup and a backup of the backup.

we all do some pretty stupid stuff from time to time due to tiredness or outright stupidity, but what saves everyone are backups.

the guy was probably lucky that by nuking everything he probably also shot down his OS, so that all they had to do to recover the lost date was to reconstruct the file allocation table. that's what I suspect... or he had forgotten that he still had another backup somewhere.

[Chicog]

Back in the day, I forgot to remove a comment from a JCL job late one night when I was seeing double, before transmitting it to our US servers; it meant that our accounts department had to spend the whole of the next day making adjustments for my error.

Fortunately they were really nice about it, probably down to me plying them with chocolates (daytime) and beer (nighttime) which seemed to make my abject apology seem more acceptable.

I never made the same mistake again though.

[Oxx]

I feel sorry for that feller if it's true.

As you suspected, it's not true. It was a publicity-raising hoax.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3057235/data-center-cloud/that-man-who-deleted-his-entire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax.html

[Chicog]

I feel sorry for that feller if it's true.

As you suspected, it's not true. It was a publicity-raising hoax.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3057235/data-center-cloud/that-man-who-deleted-his-entire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax.html

Mine wasn't though. I nearly shat myself.