I was just in the exceptional case you have mentioned....... :(
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:11:00PM +0800, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
> >
> > Yes, touch /etc/ld.so.preload was dangerous.......... once I have a typo
> > in /etc/ld.so.preload and made the whole system unusable (before I found a
> > way to boot with rescue floppy).
>
> That's a drastic means to recover. If you are confident that you can
> reproduce /etc/ld.so.preload (i.e. have a copy of it, or can remember
> what was in it, etc.) recovering from a bad /etc/ld.so.preload is as
> simple as doing a ">/etc/ld.so.preload" from a bash shell. That
> assumes you are logged in somewhere and have a bash shell running.
>
> The ">/etc/ld.so.preload" "zeros" (i.e. empties out) a file.
>
> b.
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