London: In what could be termed as a bizarre incident, a man accidently deleted his entire company along with the websites of his clients after he made an error in typing a code on his computer server.
Marco Marsala was running a web hosting company that had over 1535 customers. It monitored the servers and internet connections on which the files for websites are stored.
He wrote on a forum for server experts 'Server Fault' yesterday, that he was stuck after accidentally running destructive code on his own computers, including the websites of his customers.
The code, "rm -rf", deleted everything and blocked the helpful warnings that usually inform the user that something is being deleted. He hadn't specified what he wanted deleted, so it erased everything.
"I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the code above this line," he said.
He confirmed that the code had even deleted all of the backups that he had taken as the drives that were backing up the computers were mounted to it, the computer managed to wipe all of those too.
As soon as the news hit the online portals, social networking site Twitter didn't take much time to come into action.
The micro-bloggers, in their trademark style, soon started trolling Marco and the unfortunate incident that occurred.
Here are some of the Tweets that are sure to tickle your funny bone:
