"John (EBo) David" wrote:
> 
> Matt Alexander wrote:
> >
> > Might I suggest "kill -HUP <pid>" instead?  I made the dire mistake once of leaving out the dash when I was trying to HUP a daemon...  ie.  kill 1 12345
> > Yeah, my boss wasn't too happy about that...
> 
> ouch!  Remind me of the time I was cleaning up one of the professors
> research machines and did a "rm * .o" instead of a "rm *.o"...  The
> machine had not been backed up in over a year.  I remember sitting there
> thinking "this command should not take that l- SH!T"
> 
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There's a thin line between BOFH & OMGIFU

;-)

thanks for the smile - the danger of being root.

Craig