Admin horror stories (was: Shell Quoting)

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Tuesday 09 October 2007 17:31, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 10/9/07, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
> > ... I looked in /bin for suspicious files, and that was the
> > first time I ever noticed the file [ . It looked suspicious, so
> > of course I deleted it.  :-/
>
>   Did you know 'rpm' will let you remove every package from the system?
>
>   I do.  Now.  ;-)

I think I'd be disappointed if it didn't and I use it as further ammunition 
that Debian's APT/dpkg is better than RedHat's yum/rpm stuff.  

APT is better because it will let you remove EVERYTHING!

But then again, if you mean to say that rpm won't warn you before doing 
something like that, then that is quite scary indeed.
-N