Andrew Benton wrote:
On 08/06/10 21:54, Mike McCarty wrote:
piper.guy1 wrote:
Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I
thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a
Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive,
and then add a
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Yeah, deleting the link without changing your /etc/passwd entry
to point to a valid shell would do that.
Changing the /etc/password file won't do much. The bootscripts need
/bin/sh.
I'm talking about his host, not LFS. I have no idea what his
boot
Neal Murphy wrote:
[...]
mid-nineties. And just a couple weeks ago, I overwrote a disk that contained
half of a couple striped MD filesystems. Lost nearly 10 years of pics and
history. Another time, while redesigning the Smoothwall build system, I
Of course, you've got it all on backup.
Neal Murphy wrote:
[...]
But you are right. I had no backups and no excuses. I have an empty 400GB
drive that would have held most of that data. And there's no reason I could
not have saved all the pics to DVDs. I didn't. I lost. Oh, well. No one died,
and no critters or humans were
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 19:54 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote:
So, in the case that spawned this thread, the used could have continued to
use
his shell, albeit vey carefully and judiciously, until he exitted that shell.
Even if he performed an 'rm -rf /', his shell would continue to run and he
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Mike McCarty
mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Neal Murphy wrote:
A possible future enhancement to 'the book' might be to incorporate
checkboxes
that a newbie would check off as she performs each step. Extra work? Yes. But
worth it to make each step clearer?
On 6/8/10, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
... You'll learn to pause before hitting ENTER.
I learned that lesson very quickly. It is extremely important.
My system wouldn't last long without backups.
Speaking of backups and rescue disks, I am using an rsync snapshots
style of
