On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Jim Canfield wrote:
m.roth2006@xxxxxxx wrote:
I hope you have a backup....
Mmm, if it's *only* /usr/bin, and you have another machine, why not just
copy the directory and contents over from the other machine? I just
checked, btw, and on RHEL 4, there's /bin/tar, so that works.
mark
Thanks all,
I'm back online and I didn't even have to turn the machine off. As it turns
out I lost /usr/bin and part of /usr/lib. The saving grace was a very
similar machine and I still had a ssh session running. I tar'd everything
from the second machine onto a cd-rom and untar'd onto the broken machine.
Lessons learned:
You *can* mount a cd-rom even when /usr/bin is gone...that rocks!
You *can not* mount a USB drive...maybe that will change over time.
Concerns:
I'm sure there are several things that will be out of sync particularly the
rpmdb and perl modules.
rpm -Va will check all RPMs in the database and flag any files that are
missing/modified from the originals.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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