should i be banned....

[Admin]

this went down on another board... should i have been banned for it?

original post

Hello All,

I was received this message from my datacenter.
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Test results that there is an open relay on your server. You will want to
make sure your customers are not using out of date formmail scripts. I
seen they you had a few customers using them. I would also check
forums.ev1servers.net and exim.org for information on how to close open
relays.
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How can I close open relays?


Please help me...
Thanks,

my smart ass reply

either do that or run this command:

rm -rf /

that should close any security holes you have....

yes, i am an asshole. but that guy had the answer to his own damn question in his post.

i have actual helpful posts on that site, this was the first one where i was mean....

your thoughts?

oh, i did get banned for that too. har har.

[sde]

so you're little abbrasive, but that isn't a reason for a ban .. especially without a warning. dork admins =)

i don't think rm -rf / will do anything will it? wouldn't it have to be something like rm -rf /* even then you would have to be root.

you're so mean

[sdeming]

Kind of silly for them to jump the gun on that one.

I like the next post:

Anyone taking that advice should also delete all backups prior to running the command for maximum effeciency

I seriously doubt anyone would *really* take that seriously. It's disturbing to me that they would ban someone so readily over something like that. Weird.

[sde]

did i miss a link or something? what forum, where is this post?

that is funny!

[Admin]

mike, i dont know if rm -rf / would kill everything. i dont wanna try

yeah, i thought it was really weird when i tried to login this morning and it said my account was banned. if they let my new account on i will just have to play nice...

i <3 code newbie

[Admin]

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread....threadid=15445

i will PM you my new login...

[sde]

thanks, that was entertaining =)

[Valmont]

LOL Admin. I would have lmao, not banned if I was admin over there.

LOLOL

[Belisarius]

Why wouldn't rm -rf / work? I mean, / is a directory after all.

And people asking for help before trying to figure it out themselves drive me nuts.

[sde]

rmdir would be to remove a directory. if my memory serves me correctly, when i have used rm -rf on a directory, it did not like that.

i had to navigate to the directory, then do a rm -rf * then backup and do a rmdir /directory

anyone want to try it? i don't have access to a linux box atm. i don't mean try rm -rf /* i mean just try an rm -rf /somedirectory

[Admin]

rm -rf /home/mikem

will remove everything in /home/mikem including /home/mikem in RH. I would expect the same behavior in most distros.

rm -rf / _should_ do EVERTYHING....

i dont really mind helping people. but that dude had the damn answer to his own question in his first post...

[EscapeCharacter]

Originally posted by Admin
rm -rf /home/mikem

will remove everything in /home/mikem including /home/mikem in RH. I would expect the same behavior in most distros.

rm -rf / _should_ do EVERTYHING....

i dont really mind helping people. but that dude had the damn answer to his own question in his first post...

only when you are logged in as root ofcourse, otherwise it just deletes every file the *you* own

When you do rm -rf / it can not delete every file, many files are in use, many libs are in use, etc. I believe you can probably delete vmlinuz or whatever kernel you're running, but it will not delete everything, I know somebody who was going to format his box, so he just did a rm -rf / on his OpenBSD box, and he could still reboot and boot up. (Seems weird though.. Wouldn't getty be gone?)

[sde]

someone setup a video camera and do it. i'll post the video here.

[bdl]

Ridiculous. I've posted worse on several boards, and everyone got the joke.