Glen Smith wrote:
Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after
you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh
ask me if that's what I really want to do. ::sob::
Glen,
I'm glad this worked out for you.
I thought I might chime in that this is an excellent example of the idea that if something is broken on Unix "try rebooting" can often be a destructive solution.
I too once thought I had typed rm -rf /tmp/* late at night, then realised it was /etc/*!! Copied the scripts over from another machine. This is a useful story to have for the occasional Interview Question, "tell me about a time when you messed up, and how you went about recovering from it." The best answer is one of these situations where, by not panicking, you turn a lethal problem into an interesting triumph. :)
Cheers, -danny
-- http://dannyman.toldme.com/
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