Difficult tasks, dog is sick, S.O. suffering from depression, sleep deprived, and now I accidentally type "rm -r / ./" instead of "rm -r ./" on the production server. Whyyyyy

At least you didn't force it

Sleep deprivation is not good. Fix it. Other things would fall in line

Take a break sir before your body forces you to do so.

@asgs thanks! will do for sure.

@Cyanide will do. the fact that i dozed off while typing is insane and is not something that should happen again

Echoing the others -

- Take some much needed time off.
- Sleep
- Tell your S.O. it’s okay to be depressed, give them a hug and get some lunch on your day off
- I’m sorry your dog is sick at all the wrong times.
- Lastly, don’t ssh to prod when you’re sleep deprived. That deploy can wait. If your company doesn’t respect that, come work for mine.

Why were you logged in as root ?

the "rm" command should get an update that throws a warning when you wanna delete root ,in whatever circumstances.

@NeatNerdPrime it already does that

You have to add --no-preserve-root for it to actually delete root. The default is to protect it

@devphobe *bear hug*

This too shall pass.

@devphobe Thanks for the advice! I took the weekend to just calm down. The wife, dog and I are all doing a lot better now.

@Floydimus Thanks man. It is starting to pass. I'm making sure I learn from this to prevent this in the future.

@killames it's a legacy setup that requires me to be logged in as root to access the node process manager we use (pm2). Honestly don't have much technical depth with it as I am one of those "full stack" devs that has become the whole team for this project.