On Tuesday 07 October 2003 18:55, Paul Fraser wrote:
> I made a real big mistake, and I'm somewhat annoyed with myself now.
>
> I was cleaning up a script in /etc/init.d/ that configures my IPv6
> tunnel. I'd perfected it and was ready to get rid of the backups I made
> (ipv6-backup and so forth), so I typed in "rm ipv6-" and hit tab,
> expecting it to autocomplete. I then quickly hit asterisk and enter.
>
> Oops! There was only one file! So instead of doing "rm ipv6-backup*"
> which wouldn't have been so bad, I instructed the computer to do "rm
> ipv6-backup *" (Note the space).
>
> Now I'm in the middle of remerging all the apps which (I think) added
> init scripts to /etc/init.d. I'm hoping there's an easier and faster way
> to recover these scripts. (Yes, I've got baselayout, that's the
> essential system ones.. I'm talking about stuff like apache, fam-oss,
> portmap and so forth) I'm not looking forward to sitting through another
> XFree86 compile, so is there some way for me to grab these scripts?
> Recover them or emerge ONLY them?
Not really unless you have built packages. How about listing what packages you
need and then people can email you the scripts. More responses means more
copies which you can use to confirm validity. They should be small enough for
email...
Jason
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