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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 97 points 3 months ago

root shell? Already playing it fast and loose, I see.

[-] mlfh@lemmy.ml 64 points 3 months ago

The only legitimate commands for a non-root shell are sudo -i, exit, and echo "yee haw"

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

yee haw

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 82 points 3 months ago

Fun fact there was a guy a little over a decade ago who got drunk and traded 7m barrels of oil futures. Not dollars, barrels. He made the price of oil jump up for a short while.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/jun/29/drunk-oil-trader-banned-fsa

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 months ago

Funnier Fact: they had to stack all those barrels behind the corporation's building until they could sell them all.

::I made this up::

[-] fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 months ago

the best source

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Artisanal sourced. With an emphasis on anal.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago

Does that butt have any other fun facts up there?

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The roller coaster was invented during the Hundred Years’ War as a way of launching supplies across rivers.

Disclaimer: I'm stealing these ~~fake~~ fun facts from other people.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Actually a oil future is basically a promise to make oil for a certain price. There are also are vegetable futures

That means the oil wasn't produced yet

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[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 61 points 3 months ago

This really isn't dangerous unless you already screwed up badly. If it wipes, you just restore from backup/DR.

You do have backups and a DR plan for your prod servers, right?

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 61 points 3 months ago

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[-] Inktvip@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Didn't some company have a script running that would randomly kill stuff to always test redundancies?

I vaguely recall someone telling me that about netflix

Edit: https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey

[-] mossy_@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

that's like starting fires on random properties to make sure your firefighters stay on their toes

[-] scarilog@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today

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[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure do! They're on the prod servers and were one of the first things deleted!

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

the backup was connected via /media/backups so that's gone too!

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 57 points 3 months ago

I did this once on my laptop with no backups. I was lucky. I also used the correct version with --no-preserve-root.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 56 points 3 months ago

Obligatory --no-preserve-root

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago

Modern distros today. SMH. Back in my day everyone had root at the office.

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago

On ye olde hpux this would work, especially when you did rm-fr /$var and $var was unset and nobody unit tested their shell back then. That db server ran for 2 days though with open file handles before it finally died.

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Scene : 1998, Fort Bragg 18th Support Something-or-other, IT department

Date: 11th day of the month sometime before summer. Let's assume May.

Young Specialist looks at wall clock. Looks at time on the system. "I can fix that!"

Should I man date first? Fuck that, let's just do it!

Proceeds to set the time in the HP Unix minicomputer that handled all supply orders for the non Special Operations side of Fort Bragg.

Oops, set date to November 5th but with the correct time. No problem, we'll just run that date command again and flip the 5 and the 11 around. All fixed! Back to May 11th.

Comes into work the next day wondering why everyone is running around like crazy. All the processes have kicked off and are waiting for November to run again.

Ut-oh. Comes clean to NCOIC.

Aftermath: root was taken from all junior enlisted (good move) and only Staff Sergeants and above had it l. Oh, also the outside IT professional/Army civilian I assume.

Young Specialist gets written counseling (which was bullshit BTW- I made an honest mistake) and not UCMJ supposedly because I was going off to Kuwait for PCS (Permanent Change of Station) soon. Not allowed back on system.

Disclaimer: might have happened in June but either way I'm pretty sure I set the date to November and I know I got the date command order wrong at least once.

[-] librecat@lemmy.basedcount.com 55 points 3 months ago

Given that their hand is over the mouse and not the keyboard/enter key, I assume they're gonna click close on the terminal :p

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Right click for paste, they have \n in the clipboard

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

Afaik \n may not run a command. I have pasted multiline commands but they only seem to run after hitting enter

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Depends on the terminal I think. Pretty sure KDE's Konsole warns you that commands may be run when pasting something with newlines, but still allows it.

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

There is an exploit which addresses copy pasting things in terminal. Where you'd copy one thing, but when pasting you get more than you bargained for. Any decent terminal would ignore \n for this reason or at least not treat it as pressing enter.

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 3 months ago

change it to != cowards!

[-] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 22 points 3 months ago

There is a $[]?

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 18 points 3 months ago

Huh, it's the same as $(( )) - arithmetic expansion.
I think it's deprecated and not in the bash manual, but it still seems to work.

[-] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 18 points 3 months ago

It is? Weird. I know about deprecated backticks, but this... I guess it's so deprecated that very few people know about this. Now a bit more.

[-] lobsticle@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

As an old Perl jockey, you can pry my backticks out of my cold, dead hands.

[-] comador@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Daily Linux user since Slackware 95, news to me too lol

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 3 months ago

Same camp, and know bash very, very, well. Crazy how you can always learn.

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[-] GravelPieceOfSword@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago

Cowards version:

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && echo 'rm -fr /... you crazy dude? NO' || echo 'Keep your french language pack, you will need it'

[-] smb@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

 HISTCONTROL=ignorespace
 unset RANDOM
 RANDOM=4
 clear
...

If RANDOM is unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is subsequently reset.

HISTCONTROL If the list of values includes ignorespace, lines which begin with a space character are not saved in the history list.

RTFM can save your server AND your bet ;-)

it is cheating of course if the predefined rules tell us about such requirements and if these are not met any more when unsetting RANDOM ahead of it.

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago

This is why you use virtual machines, anyone can be root!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Or just to have a modular, secure and private system.

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[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

What is right clicking on terminal going to do?

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

maybe they have it mapped to enter, you never know with laptop linux users.

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Right click increase the temp of the touchpad, which the user has macroed as an "Enter"input, letting him press enter with all fingers on home row and just resting the palm on the touch pad

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Ultimate ergonomics at the cost of entry speed.

[-] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 3 months ago

Btrfs snapshots?

[-] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

You're using btrfs on prod?!

Man, you're crazier than I thought... /s

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[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

in 2024 this should rewrite history in all your githib repos to destroy wverything next fetch

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

Jokes on you, I use zsh, your silly bashisms have no power here.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 4 points 3 months ago

Are you sure it doesn't work on zsh? It's valid POSIX shell code, and like bash, zsh is a superset of POSIX, at least if I remember correctly.

This is not to goad you into destroying your filesystem. Replace the rm with something relatively harmless like echo "BANG! You're dead!" if you decide to test it.

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[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Hmm I thought you only spin once so there’s eventually a guaranteed shot. The 6 should decrement after each execution.

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

That's not how randomness works. You would want to randomize once, saving the number of steps remaining until the bullet is the next shot, decrementing the number of steps for each try.