[PLUG] That's It! Nautilus is HISTORY!

[Jason R. Martin]

On 9/9/05, Ronald Chmara <ron at opus1.com> wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2005, at 7:34 PM, AthlonRob wrote:
>  > Perhaps we should all share our "root oops" stories or something to
> make
> > the new guy feel better?  :-)
> 
> 2 am. The CEO is on a plane to brazil to demo an application after 8
> months of coding.
> And someone has run:
> cd /etc/
> rm -rf /etc/sshd *
> Rather than
> rm -rf /etc/sshd/*
> 
> ..on the live, deployment, box. (I really hated getting that cellphone
> call..)
> 
> Longest night of my life. (it's pretty hard to use a live box without
> /etc). He eventually found a similar box, and ztermed the data across
> using a live session (as ssh was dead, ftp dead, login dead, etc.).
> 
> Nautilus though? Ditch it. GUI's are great ways of getting into trouble.

Clearly the command line will *NEVER* get you into trouble, as you
demonstrated above :-)

Use GUIs when you want a GUI.  Use the command line when you want a
command line.  Learn them both, because sooner or later you're going
to have to use both of them.

Jason