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From: gmack@cisden.UUCP (Gregg Mackenzie)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <542@cisden.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 17:34:56 EST
Article-I.D.: cisden.542
Posted: Mon Mar 10 17:34:56 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 22:54:31 EST
References: <223@bu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gmack@cisden.UUCP (Gregg Mackenzie)
Organization: ConTel Information Systems, Denver
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And then there was the programmer at Contel today (no, it wasn't
me :-) who ran some commands that he found in net.rumor and removed 
his directory.

In article <223@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
> Re: running jobs that bring the system to its knees.
>
> There is another way to deal with getting rid of such jobs. Let's
> assume the user's login name is 'john', then the following is effective:
>
> 	rm -r ~john
> 	ed /etc/passwd
> 	/^john:/d
> 	w
> 	q

Or something like that.  He bent over and took it like a man, though. :-)

Gregg Mackenzie
cisden!gmack