[PLUG] where does Red Hat start x?

[Elliott Mitchell]

> From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> > No -- much more subtle -- tell someone to erase all their custom
> > configuration settings using "rm -rf .*"
> >
> > MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
> 
>   Chuckle away, but I accidently erased all the dot-files in my home
> directory severalt years ago. After that uncomfortable, sinking feeling in
> my gut went away I got the last week's full backup tape and restored them
> all, then followed up with any incremental, daily backups. About a half-hour
> later I was back in business. Wiser, too. That's when I made an alias for
> 'rm' that forces me to confirm each one.

`touch ./-rf`

Now remove it. Depending upon the `rm` you may very well accidentally
remove everything. Don't alias rm, as mentioned by others, use it
carefully.


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