On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:02:45PM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote:
> I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*" I was root when I executed this command.
> Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine and
> was really just a backup so nothing was lost.
> Not sure what it deleted but i
Abraham Chaffin wrote:
I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*" I was root when I executed this command.
Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine
and was really just a backup so nothing was lost.
Not sure what it deleted but it rendered the os useless.
Thanks for your he
I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*" I was root when I executed this command.
Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine and
was really just a backup so nothing was lost.
Not sure what it deleted but it rendered the os useless.
Thanks for your help and I'll be using "rm *"
Sharninder wrote:
A simple rm should not have removed user commands which are in other
directories. There must be something else wrong. In any case if you
really have lost the binaries there is not much that you can do at this
point.
One possible scenario is that something "clever" was done,
On 18-Apr-08, at 1:52 AM, "Abraham Chaffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hey All,
Bit of a problem here - I ran rm /*
It didn't remove the directories obviously but now no commands work
but cd
I was wanting to run ./*
Now if I ls I get
-su: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
Help much app
Joost Witteveen skrev:
On 17/04/2008, Abraham Chaffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey All,
Bit of a problem here - I ran rm /*
It didn't remove the directories obviously but now no commands work but cd
cd is a bash-builtin, that's why it works. "echo", "type", "cat", etc
also work, I s
> On 17/04/2008, Abraham Chaffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hey All,
>> I was wanting to run ./*
>> Now if I ls I get
>> -su: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
Wondering a bit why not just run
rm *
instead of the (error prone)
rm ./*
What am I missing?
--Mark Allums
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To UNSUBSCRIBE,
> > Hey All,
> >
> > Bit of a problem here - I ran rm /*
> > It didn't remove the directories obviously but now no commands work but
> cd
>
> cd is a bash-builtin, that's why it works. "echo", "type", "cat", etc
> also work, I suppose.
>
> > I was wanting to run ./*
> > Now if I ls I get
> > -su:
On 17/04/2008, Abraham Chaffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Bit of a problem here - I ran rm /*
> It didn't remove the directories obviously but now no commands work but cd
cd is a bash-builtin, that's why it works. "echo", "type", "cat", etc
also work, I suppose.
> I was wanting to
Hey All,
Bit of a problem here - I ran rm /*
It didn't remove the directories obviously but now no commands work but cd
I was wanting to run ./*
Now if I ls I get
-su: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
Help much appreciated.
Thanks,
Abraham
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