Hihi, our little training in risk-assessment tonight is the following
sippet of a crontab entry, scheduled to run dayly around midnight:
(cd /usr/preserve ; find . -mtime +7 -a -exec rm -f {} \;)
why is this a bad idea and what happened to me last night as I was
playing with my VAX6460?
Answer: the /usr/preserve was a symlink to /usr/var/preserve which
didn't exist. What happened next?
All files that were not accessed for more than 7 days were being deleted (and
I basically installed this system 3 days ago but had fast forwarded my system
time from 1976 to 2002 the day before. :-)
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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
Received on Wed Mar 20 2002 - 17:05:39 GMT