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Stupid thing to do: Run # cleanlinks

A mindblowingly dangourous thing to do is to run # cleanlinks on / as root on any Debian system. Basically, it inrevertably destroys one’s system by removing symbolic links that should not have been removed.

Anyone a little smarter than me should never run that command. You better make sure it will never run by removing it from your system: # rm /usr/bin/cleanlinks.

Thanks for nothing $ apropos clean!

Copyright © 2008 Daniel Aleksandersen 2008-06-12 at 07:06

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