So I'm here, working on setting my a server for my parents office. As for a certain server program, the permissions have to be set differently. Due to operating system + software issues, I had to do it manually...

As I'm sitting there, I make the worst typo of my life:
sudo chown -R fmserver / *Presses Enter*

So...... Yeah.
If you don't really get it, bottom line, I blew up all the permissions on the entire server, and right now I'm hoping and waiting for the permissions repair to work. If not... FML.

Grobyc

Canada18409 Posts

November 03 2009 23:33 GMT

oh snap

numLoCK

Canada1416 Posts

November 03 2009 23:38 GMT

Oh God haha, that really sucks >.<
Good luck saving those permissions x.x

Kau

Canada3432 Posts

November 03 2009 23:43 GMT

At least it wasn't an rm -rf.

AcrossFiveJulys

United States3610 Posts

November 04 2009 00:12 GMT

sudo rm -rf fmserver would have been worse =)

EtherealDeath

United States8294 Posts

November 04 2009 00:16 GMT

haha hate it when typos bite you in the ass like that =/

MasterReY

Germany2665 Posts

November 04 2009 00:23 GMT

can you guys explain this? :D

what you wanted to write?
what did that line you wrote?
what means rm -rf fmserver?

show some love for the nongeeks !

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla17706 Posts

November 04 2009 00:29 GMT

fmserver

fuck my server

ZeroCartin

Costa Rica2356 Posts

November 04 2009 00:34 GMT

On November 04 2009 09:29 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
fmserver

fuck my server

genious

Snet

United States3573 Posts

November 04 2009 01:45 GMT

#10

Something where FML actually fits pretty good.

Elvin_vn

Vietnam2038 Posts

November 04 2009 02:31 GMT

#11

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

November 04 2009 02:34 GMT

#12

Technically, it's FileMaker Server, but I 100% support and prefer FakeSteve's.

On November 04 2009 09:23 MasterReY wrote:
can you guys explain this? :D

what you wanted to write?
what did that line you wrote?
what means rm -rf fmserver?

show some love for the nongeeks !

What I wanted to write was essentially specifying a specific folder to change permissions for. Me typing a single slash targeted my entire directory, screwing up literally every single file in my computer, setting permissions exclusively not for a user account.

What that line did was change permissions to "fmserver" for the specified directory.

rm -rf essentially means delete everything on your computer. fmserver has nothing to do with that statement.

And <3.

CharlieMurphy

United States22893 Posts

November 04 2009 02:40 GMT

#13

loll

ShoCkeyy

6146 Posts

November 04 2009 03:27 GMT

#14

oh shit make that sucks. It's been a while, how did it come out?

TheAntZ

Israel6110 Posts

November 04 2009 03:35 GMT

#15

wow thats a really bad typo D:

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

November 04 2009 04:00 GMT

#16

What happened was the permissions fixed most, but not all of them, and especially not enough to make it fully functional again. I reinstalled the operating system over a network (No CD drive, which sucks), and all the software.
Fresh start + paranoia/extreme care made it all work out, except for the fact that I got home about 20 minutes ago, without a chance to start on any of the work I actually had to do for school. Worked out well, I suppose. Just didn't get a chance to play SC or CS.

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