help! directories changed into regular files! :(
Hi, I remembered thinking, should i backup the directory tree before this chang? nah ;-) i used sed in a directory with subdirs, and it changed all directories into normal files :( the exact command: sed -i -e s/'pm_properties\([^a-z]\)/#__properties\1/g' * after which i discovered it had name the directories name-e and had turned into regular files. no warnings whatsoever. (btw, yes i know that it should have been -i.orig) weird thing is, i can't reproduce the bug, and the command history wasn't big enough to figure out what was so special about this particular situation... sed sais 'in-place editing only works for regular files' but this time it didn't my question though: is there _any_ way to flip the bit that marks the file being a directory? it would really be helpful to me because i've just lost a lot of work. any ideas? bye Martijn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help! directories changed into regular files! :(
On 12/5/06, martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any ideas? The general idea is that kernel never permits *any* write access to directory files even if you have root privileges. Please check once again, what your problem might be. Try backing up your disk with dd and running fsck, or run fsck on a snapshot. And please use shorter lines. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help! directories changed into regular files! :(
Hello, Once upon a Tue, Dec 05 2006, Andrew Pantyukhin hit keys in the following order: The general idea is that kernel never permits *any* write access to directory files even if you have root privileges. well, it happened... i was root atm, in a jail, but i'll try to recreate the bug... Please check once again, what your problem might be. Try backing up your disk with dd and running fsck, or run fsck on a snapshot. too bad its on my live webserver... i can do all this and still get nowhere, reading from your answer i hit something that is not possible. so i won't be able to recreate it anyway.. my problem remains the same, no argueing about it, my directories _did_ turn into files. And please use shorter lines. sorry about that, i forgot to setup my textwith... 72 chars is okay right? bye martijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help! directories changed into regular files! :(
Once upon a Tue, Dec 05 2006, martijn hit keys in the following order: Once upon a Tue, Dec 05 2006, Andrew Pantyukhin hit keys in the following order: The general idea is that kernel never permits *any* write access to directory files even if you have root privileges. well, it happened... i was root atm, in a jail, but i'll try to recreate the bug... One more thing, it happened on a nullfs mounted drive... Could that be the problem? martijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KINDA SOLVED: Re: help! directories changed into regular files! :(
Heheh, now i can reproduce it ;-) I did an in-place searchreplace with sed on a bunch of symlinks to directories, but i didn't remember they were symlinks. When you do that, the symlink gets backed up as a normal file. probably not the behauviour we want, but hey, thats live when you give stupid commands ;-) martijn. Once upon a Tue, Dec 05 2006, martijn hit keys in the following order: Hi, I remembered thinking, should i backup the directory tree before this chang? nah ;-) i used sed in a directory with subdirs, and it changed all directories into normal files :( the exact command: sed -i -e s/'pm_properties\([^a-z]\)/#__properties\1/g' * after which i discovered it had name the directories name-e and had turned into regular files. no warnings whatsoever. (btw, yes i know that it should have been -i.orig) weird thing is, i can't reproduce the bug, and the command history wasn't big enough to figure out what was so special about this particular situation... sed sais 'in-place editing only works for regular files' but this time it didn't my question though: is there _any_ way to flip the bit that marks the file being a directory? it would really be helpful to me because i've just lost a lot of work. any ideas? bye Martijn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
