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A man who asked for help on a server forum, claiming that he had deleted his entire company with just one line of code, now says the whole thing was a stunt. Marco Marsala had originally posted the following plea on a question and answer site for system and network administrators. His situation (i.e., that he had deleted all of his serves and backups with an errant rm command) was so awful, and so believable, that his post received widespread attention, particularly from users who pointed out that he was at fault for not properly backing up his files. The sudo rm -rf / command is famously destructive, but — happily for Marsala's clients — this particular situation was a hoax. Marsala admitted to making up the scenario in order to promote his small company, which (naturally) provides outsourced server management services. It was just a joke, Marsala told Italian news outlet La Repubblica (translated): Marsala said he is also working on a Unix for Dummies book, and that the situation he described actually did happen, but to someone else before 2006.
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