can annihilate a box

[yarikoptic]

well -- not my days really... needed to regrub a box without cdrom/usb boot -- decided to give grml-terminalserver a try blindingly just running it as root from the beginning... it spit out bunch of errors before it exited, and then somehow I have managed to close that screen shell so I lost any track of what it told me .,.. and now I ended up with /bin and /etc being removed, and also no devices under /dev... who knows what else... I haven't done analysis of the script(s) yet but just wanted to complain.

I guess having smth like 'set -eu' at the beginning of the script could save some other souls and exit early instead of I guess proceeding execution with some variables left undefined ;)

[mika]

Uh, I'm sorry to hear that, but I've absolutely no idea what was going on your system. :( I've never ever experienced such an issue (even though grml-terminalserver is running in all kinds of environments). Could you please explain in more detail what you actually did? Did you run it on the Grml live system itself?

[yarikoptic]

It was wheezy Debian installation iirc. I just cloned repo to /tmp, cd to that directory and ran bash grml-terminalserver... this was done in a screen session, with su or sudo to get to root. I guess I would not be able to replicate this fun now. My recommendation still stands on making scripts fail early

On October 2, 2014 4:33:30 PM EDT, Michael Prokop [email protected] wrote:

Uh, I'm sorry to hear that, but I've absolutely no idea what was going
on your system. :( I've never ever experienced such an issue (even
though grml-terminalserver is running in all kinds of environments).
Could you please explain in more detail what you actually did? Did you
run it on the Grml live system itself?

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[mika]

Uh alright, I'll try to reproduce that. Sure, the script is supposed to fail early, if it's not doing so that's clearly a bug. Thanks for the followup!