Odd error message

[BWhaler]

I just opened Terminal and typed "sudo periodic daily" to do the routine clean-up, and got the following message

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.

Is this normal? Am I about to do something stupid. I didn't type in the password since the message scared me off.

Any advice or thoughts?

 

[angelneo]

I just opened Terminal and typed "sudo periodic daily" to do the routine clean-up, and got the following message

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.

Is this normal? Am I about to do something stupid. I didn't type in the password since the message scared me off.

Any advice or thoughts?

This is just one of those cute warning messages that comes with linux or unix depending on their distro. I think you have upgraded to OS 10.3.5. It basically just tell you that using sudo is dangerous and you should take care in using this command. Nothing to worry about if you know what you are doing.

 

[broken_keyboard]

Remember that OS X is based off of server operating system. Servers typically are shared by a bunch of people - so the OS has these messages about respecting other people's files. Even though a lot of us are just using it exclusively ourselves. Our very own server