So I have a root session open, yes, ROOT, since I'm installing our production BI system. Well for some reason the install got hosed and we decided the best thing to do was blow the files away and start from scratch.
I start deleting the executables and realize the system is still up. Well crap, I need to stop it. So, what do I do... from the current directory, I type 'cd' bringing way to the top, then 'stopsap r3'. It doesn't work. Oh yeah, cause I'm root and it doesn't have the alias.
Jump over to my other telnet session, stop sap, then hop back over to my root session... where I procede to 'rm -R *'.
Yeah.... stopped it in time, but it still blew the important things away. You know, like everything under /home
My team is having a field day with me today, my new nickname is cannon fodder, and I walked into a magnet on my keyboard that says "You can't fix stupid".
So, always check your directory path before using rm -R *. For all you Windows folks who have no clue what I'm talking about... picture typing 'fdisk' in the command line... except on a much bigger box