"make check" may have trashed my system

2001-07-20 Thread Paul J. Menchini
503 Valid RCPT TO must precede DATA Here is the original message: From: "Paul J. Menchini" Subject: "make check" may have trashed my system To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:32:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: mench (Paul J. Menchini) Hello, I am attempting to install autoc

Re: "make check" may have trashed my system

2001-07-20 Thread Paul J. Menchini
Paul (if I may), >> From: "Paul J. Menchini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:50:26 -0400 (EDT) >> I discovered that every non-directory file in >> / was gone; in particular, the symbolic links /bin, /lib, and /sys (in >> addition

Re: "make check" may have trashed my system

2001-07-20 Thread Paul J. Menchini
Tim (if I may), >>> correctly) and then find out which process is trying to unlink /bin >>> and friends. > My (extremely uneducated) guess would be that it might be the > $tmp cleanup - maybe we're not robust to /tmp being a symlink? > What does the /tmp symlink point to? % ls -l /tmp

Re: "make check" may have trashed my system

2001-08-01 Thread Paul J. Menchini
Paul, >> From: "Paul J. Menchini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:50:26 -0400 (EDT) >> I discovered that every non-directory file in >> / was gone; in particular, the symbolic links /bin, /lib, and /sys (in >> addition to /tmp and

Re: "make check" may have trashed my system

2001-08-03 Thread Paul J. Menchini
Paul, I discovered that every non-directory file in / was gone; in particular, the symbolic links /bin, /lib, and /sys (in addition to /tmp and some local symbolic links) and the files /boot, /kadb and /vmunix (as well as some backup versions of /vmunix) were gone. In ad