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bobthebob1234 · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:13 pm Post subject: Quick ways of killing a server

Just killed a server. Oops Shocked

(Don't try this a home)

nelz · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:41 pm Post subject:

If you'd used * instead of ./* you couldn't have accidentally type /*.

Anyway that's not dead, just rather ill, unless it's a remote server and you rebooted before realising what you'd done Smile

As far as your question is concerned, I take the Fifth Smile

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bobthebob1234 · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:04 pm Post subject:

well it wasn't a remote server but when i logged in locall it seemed very ill so i rebooted then it was very very ill.

reinstalled in the end cos i had only just installed it. all working now (appart from the fact i just locked myself out from moodle...)

for future reference though how does one fix the it when it is ill?
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Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2359

Add penicilline Wink

(sorry, couldn't let this one pass by Embarassed

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nelz · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:30 pm Post subject:

ajgreeny · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:34 pm Post subject:

It's always worth adding an

MartyBartfast · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:07 pm Post subject:

I once intended to

Nickless-Wirth · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 12:11 am Post subject:

I generally do these as "ls <whatever>" first, then arrow-up, edit, and away the root goes...

Not so obviously, I tend to have time to think of such problems - someone who is frantically trying to get something into working order, is generally not so lucky.
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