Hello Jose, What I have just done is doing a fresh installation.
Thnx, Ahmed On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Jose Juan Montes < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ahmed. > > If you have really lost your /var directory, I would try to recover from > the latest backup. > > If your /var directory is mounted in a different partition, it could happen > that it is just not mounted now and thus you would be seeing only /var/lock > and /var/run. Check if your mounts are ok. > > If someone really deleted the whole /var directory and you don't have a > backup, you've mostly lost all your services data (including, but not > limited to samba users and computer registration, LDAP data, apt and dpkg > data, logs, email, mysql...). In this case, I would suggest a whole > reinstallation from scratch. > > Good luck and best regards. > > Hello folks, > > An intruder accessed my system possibly through "ssh" and deleted the whole > log directory. This morning, clients on a LAN could not access internet > because machines could not get IP addresses. When I accessed the server, > there's internet at the server but cant go beyond. Restarting the system, > could not even start "system logger". I tried to check the log messages, the > log directory could be traced up. cd to /var, I only found two directories > > lock and run > > How based can I recover this server without doing a fresh installation and > configuration?. This is a server running as a mail server too. > > > Looking forward to hearing from you. > > > Best, > Ahmed > > -- > AhmedPanel Ltd > P.O Box 6081 > Kampala - Uganda > Tel: +256-773-066343 / 702-066343 > Email: [email protected] > Web: http://www.ahmedpanel.com > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ebox-user mailing > [email protected]http://lists.ebox-platform.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user > > > > -- > > José Juan Montes > Área de Sistemas - Aitire > > C./ Príncipe Nº 34, Principal, Oficina 3 > 36201 Vigo, Pontevedra > Teléfono: +34 986 163 050www.aitire.es > > > _______________________________________________ > ebox-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ebox-platform.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user > > -- AhmedPanel Ltd P.O Box 6081 Kampala - Uganda Tel: +256-773-066343 / 702-066343 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.ahmedpanel.com
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