Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-08 Thread Ray
On Monday 07 May 2007 11:16 pm, Ian Smith wrote: snip Ray, I've been watching this thread, and you've had some good advice about backups etc, but if you really did 'rm -f *' in /usr/local (NOT 'rm -rf *') then it's very likely that you deleted no files at all. snip sorry, should have said rm

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-08 Thread Bernd Trippel
Martin Tournoij typed on 06/05/07 05:23: On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote: Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found in /usr/local/bin or something. What I did was to start over, reinstall from scratch. my question, was there an easier way? yes. do rm -rf /var/db/ports and then install all needed ports, as

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What I did was to start over, reinstall from scratch. my question, was there an easier way? Sure, just restore what you need from those backups you have so diligently been making --- :-) the best solution :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-07 Thread Jeff Palmer
At 07:05 PM 5/5/2007, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards. The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note that root was running bash as a shell at the

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:05:42 -0600 Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards. The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note

disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-05 Thread Ray
Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards. The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found in /usr/local/bin or

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-05 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards. The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note that root was running bash as a

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards. The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note that root was

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:05:42PM -0600, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards. The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note that root was

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-05 Thread George
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:10:36PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote: The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found in /usr/local/bin or something. What I did was to start

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-05 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote: Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards.

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-05 Thread Ray
On Saturday 05 May 2007 9:23 pm, Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote: Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and