theal wrote: > The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my > servers. Does anyone know of a way to recover this?
Your best and simplest option is, of course, to restore your latest backup. But since you're asking here, I assume that no backup exists. I don't think it a good idea to copy the /lib directory from another machine as long as the configuration of that machine is not 100 percent identical to yours. Unless the configurations are identical, you would certainly miss some needed libraries and on the other hand have unneeded libraries lying around in /lib, which are not part of any package and will never be removed. The /lib directory also includes the kernel module files, which will simply not work for you if the kernel version and configuration is not identical. The Debian package system keeps a list of installed packages and every single file which every single package installs in /var/lib/dpkg/info. If you start your system using a rescue CD, or any other cd-based linux distribution (Knoppix, Ubuntu live CDs, etc.) and use that information, you will probably be able to reinstall exactly those packages, which install files in /lib. If you grep through the *.list files in the directory, you will see that only a few packages install files in /lib -- on my desktop system about 40 packages: grep -m1 ^/lib /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list When you have the package names you can get the packages from your local Debian mirror (or /var/cache/apt/) and reinstall them on your system. See the --root option of dpkg for that. Regards, Dennis -- Send personal mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only. Off-list mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not reach me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
