On 03/21/2011 04:23 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Whereas in > a proper root shell aren't you prone to "grave mistakes" due to silly > things like typos, "forgot where I am in the directory tree" like > errors? First, I only use su - if and *only* if I have to, to avoid those embarrassing "where was I?" moments. (I also use pwd if I'm not completely sure.) Second, before I do anything as root, I read over the command several times to be sure. And, before deleting *anything* as root, I use ls to see exactly what I'm going to delete and I never delete anything *as root* without good reason. IOW, I'm very careful. I won't say that I can't make mistakes, but I can say that after using Linux as a secondary OS starting in about '98 and as my only OS since Fedora 9 I've learned how to avoid almost all of them. I tend to regard such things as simple, common prudence and expect the same from most of the people on this list. As I've been writing this, something interesting has occurred to me: by the time I stopped doing tech support for an ISP (Our call center was closed and the entire support crew was laid off.) I had been "on the phones" longer than anybody else there. I found myself, more and more, finding things obvious that nobody else understood or knew, simply because none of the other techs had anywhere near my experience. Considering how long I've been using Linux, this may well be simply another case of my not realizing how different my experience level is compared to the rest of the list. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
