On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:42:27 -0800, Adar Dembo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hey all, > > Last night one of my Debian-running laptops was made inoperable by > the removal of /sbin and /bin. I'm not quite sure why or how this > happened, but I'll tell you what I did from start to finish. ..snip "how". > At this point I'm a bit stumped. I'm ready to cut my losses and > either find replacement /sbin and /lib directories, or outright > re-partition and re-install Debian, but I'm entirely perplexed as to > how this catastrophic failure happened. Did some hardware malfunction? > Was one of the packages corrupt or broken, and apt-get somehow deleted > the directories? Did somebody regardless manage to break in and remove > them? If anybody has any ideas, I'm all ears. And if anyone has any > pointers as to where to look on the laptop for possibly more > information, I'm also open to that. ..how about playing lan cop and try find out what happened? I use http://www.linux-forensics.com/ ..a few more I found off http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixCustomizations : http://www.knoppix-std.org/ http://www.phlak.org/ http://www.localareasecurity.com/ http://echelonlinux.free.fr/ -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
