On Saturday 19 April 2008 11:08:36 Dino Vliet wrote:
>Hi folks,
>Yesterday disaster struck after I wanted to remove Gnome and issued
>the following command:
> pkg_deinstall -R x11/gnome* -x evolution
> I went to sleep and when I woke up I rebooted and got the login
> screen iso my norma
Martin Tournoij typed on 06/05/07 05:23:
> On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Martin Tournoij wrote:
>>> On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
Hello all,
I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a
"clever" hack were the main reasons), and
On Monday 07 May 2007 11:16 pm, Ian Smith wrote:
> Ray, I've been watching this thread, and you've had some good advice
> about backups etc, but if you really did 'rm -f *' in /usr/local (NOT
> 'rm -rf *') then it's very likely that you deleted no files at all.
sorry, should have said
rm -rf *
On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:05:42 -0600 Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
> a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
> right thing afterwards.
>
> The mistake:
> /usr/local/# rm -
At 07:05 PM 5/5/2007, Ray wrote:
Hello all,
I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
right thing afterwards.
The mistake:
/usr/local/# rm -f *
note that root was running bash as a shell at the
What I did was to start over, reinstall from scratch.
my question, was there an easier way?
Sure, just restore what you need from those backups you have
so diligently been making --- :-)
the best solution :)
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing
The mistake:
/usr/local/# rm -f *
note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found
in /usr/local/bin or something.
What I did was to start over, reinstall from scratch.
my question, was there an easier way?
yes.
do
rm -rf /var/db/ports
and then install all needed ports, as base
On Saturday 05 May 2007 9:23 pm, Martin Tournoij wrote:
> On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > Martin Tournoij wrote:
> > >On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
> > >>Hello all,
> > >>I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a
> > >> "clever" hack were the
On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Martin Tournoij wrote:
> >On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
> >>Hello all,
> >>I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a
> >>"clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did
> >>the right thing a
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:10:36PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Martin Tournoij wrote:
> > On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
> > > The mistake:
> > > /usr/local/# rm -f *
> > > note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found
> > > in /usr/local/bin or something.
> > >
> > > Wha
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:05:42PM -0600, Ray wrote:
> Hello all,
> I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
> a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
> right thing afterwards.
>
> The mistake:
> /usr/local/# rm -f *
> note that roo
Martin Tournoij wrote:
On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
Hello all,
I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
right thing afterwards.
The mistake:
/usr/local/# rm -f *
note that root was
On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
> Hello all,
> I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
> a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
> right thing afterwards.
>
> The mistake:
> /usr/local/# rm -f *
> note that root was running bas
In the last episode (Oct 06), Grant Peel said:
> Possibly the last few questions.
>
> 1. After fdisk/disklabel/newfs, how do you drop to the shell (can I
> drop to tcsh?).
In sysinstall, pick Fixit, then CDROM/DVD. The default shell is
/bin/sh, but since you're on a livecd, you can switch to tcs
t;Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "freeBSD"
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery.
In the last episode (Oct 06), Grant Peel said:
Is it possible to boot the machine using a 'live&
Regards,
Uli.
-Grant
- Original Message - From: "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "freeBSD"
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery.
On 2006/10/06 5:34, Grant
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> From: "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "freeBSD"
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Disaster recovery.
>>
>> http://www.freesbie.org/
Yes, see Fre
In the last episode (Oct 06), Grant Peel said:
> Is it possible to boot the machine using a 'live' freebsd silesystem
> via cd? Then setup the /mnt , setup the new filesystems, then use
> restore to briung the real data to the disk?
>
> I guess my question really should have been, if you install a
uot;freeBSD"
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery.
On 2006/10/06 5:34, Grant Peel seems to have typed:
so the question is ... if I have the dumps on one machine, and I just
installed a new hard drive on another, in a nutshell, what are the steps
to
re
On 2006/10/06 5:34, Grant Peel seems to have typed:
> so the question is ... if I have the dumps on one machine, and I just
> installed a new hard drive on another, in a nutshell, what are the steps to
> restore the failed server. Can I use the FreeBSD 'live' filesystem? Is ther
> a step by step
Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I currently keep file dumps of all filesystems on our servers on a
secure raid 5 box, lees of course, the proc and swap dir.
These dumps look like this and are done and transfered to a NFS
filesystem in the /mnt/ dir.
server1-usr-full-dump
server1-home-full-dump
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
>Madhusudan Singh
>Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:09 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Disaster recovery ?
>
>
>Hi
>
>I had a working FreeBSd 5.3 RELEASE server running postfix and
>zope unti
On Aug 30, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
I had a working FreeBSd 5.3 RELEASE server running postfix and zope
until
last night. When I checked it in the morning, it had a bunch of
"ad4 ...
UNRECOVERABLE ERROR" messages on it. Upon a reboot, it complains it
cannot
find /boot/load
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:12:14PM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> Here's how I plan to recover a system from a level 0 backup to
> new hardware, if ever the need arises:
>
> 1. boot off installation CD (or floppy??)
> 2. disklabel, make filesystems (using sysinstall)
> 3. restore root filesystem an
At 09:12 PM 6/24/2003 +1000, you wrote:
Here's how I plan to recover a system from a level 0 backup to
new hardware, if ever the need arises:
1. boot off installation CD (or floppy??)
2. disklabel, make filesystems (using sysinstall)
3. restore root filesystem and mount it
4. change fstab and
I keep a local copy ftpable of the version(s) I use.. Install just the
bin dist using floppy and the local ftpable - then full restore from tape
- and recompile the kernal just to be on the safe side.
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Sue Blake wrote:
> Here's how I plan to recover a system from a level 0 b
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