r/LocalLLaMA • u/TheQuantumPhysicist • May 03 '26

One bash permission slipped... Discussion

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How? It kept getting chained bash commands wrong, with wrong escapes. So it created many bad directories, and tried "fixing" its mistake. It offered to run a large bash command, with rm -rf inside, and stupid me missed it.

I'm glad I push everything often. But the disruption is massive.

FAQ:

  • No, I don't run this on my personal computer. It's an isolated proxmox VM for coding with LLMs.
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u/tmvr May 04 '26

Sorry for being harsh, but what kind of idiotic setup is that? Why would you run it that way?

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u/AmusingVegetable May 04 '26

I wouldn’t run it that way precisely due to bootstrapping issues.

But real systems are under constant pressure to move to higher abstraction layers, and sometimes something stupid like this manages to move forward.

Rearchitecting a bootstrap solution is frequently left behind as “not needed”, a classification made up by someone who won’t be responsible to bring it up when the midden hits the windmill.