I make big error

Question

Hallo. For my project I am working on for other company I have to put code in sun solaris server. Company have give me "root" user name and I log in from "ssh" protocol. I am beginner for solaris so I look on internet for commands I I make error of enter "rm -rf *" in file. Now many program disapear and is not good. How to get back as is no recyling bin? Plese advise as I am get email and also phone call.

Answer 1

Supposing for the sake of argument that El Twinky
were for real, how would you rate his chances of
achieving this?Erm, -0.0000000000 or some such? ( give or take a bit ;-)
Though I do rather miss the "good" old days of tech-support...True story follows (on topic with your other reply): when I was a young
student an older friend of mine (also a student) asked me to "take care
of everything for an hour or so" because he wanted to play pool with
his friends down town although he was on duty: garding a VAX/780,
running unix V6 with 40 or so terminals attached to it.
No problem, I could do it (I said ignorantly). After a few minutes those
darn users started to complain about the system getting too slow and
blahblahblah. Me, being the proud owner of an early Acorn Atom (tm)
home computer, trotted off to the central university computining centre,
asked which one of those humming washing machines was a VAX
and simply turned the key; waited a bit to get rid of the "wheeooooh ..."
ventilator sounds and turned that key back the other way then.
Just as I did with my little Acorn Atom home computer ...
When I got back to that terminal room everybody was still complaining
and even more: the numerical analysis group had started to complain
too: their PDP 11/70 had stopped responding. So I went back to that
central computing centre and randomly swicthed off and back on again
some systems, including that VAX 11/780 (by sheer serendipity).
I (clevery) decided to wait awhile before returning to those terminal rooms.
After, say, 15 minutes or so I returned, my friend got back too and,
believe it or not: everybody was happy again: all systems were back up
again and everybody was working on their finite elements methods and
whatever again.
I must have it in me ;-)
kind regards,
Jos