A tip..

[Joni Larsen-Haikarainen aka Lejon]

Use your favorit editor.
and save a empty file named -i
in all directorys containing things that must not be removed by mistake.

The effect of this is that if u type: rm -Rf *
in a directory containing the file -i
That file will be read as the -i flag, making sure to ask you if you 
realy are sure you want to preform that action.


Charles Fox wrote:
> Thanks -- I did it using the force option, rpm -f, to force the rpm to
> 'overwrite' the .so file.
>
> Re. being so stupid as to delete system files... I was once told the
> whole point of linux was that you were supposed to break it and fix it
> to learn how it works... :)
>
> Would it be a good idea for me to rename the rm program to rm2, and
> define my own rm that moves files to the trash?  Or is that likely to
> cause problems anywhere?  Is that a common thing to do?