Reply to post: Re: Nuked Network Drive

You were told to clean up our systems, not delete 8,000 crucial files

Phil O'Sophical Silver badge

Re: Nuked Network Drive

We had a similar problem. Sysadmin came in one morning to some complaints of missing files. They continued over the course of the morning, and it was only when he noticed that the complainants were arriving in roughly alphabetical order of username that he twigged what had happened. QA test system was doing "rm -rf ${TESTROOT}/" with TESTROOT unset, but with the NFS automounter configured. Not running as root, so the damage only really started when it got to /home and found all the files with "group" delete permissions...

Many people were very relieved that we had nightly offline backups.

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