From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) Subject: Re: Linux Admin Horror Story... Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 02:58:15 GMT
In article <1nb25fINN1mo@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> msb@cats.ucsc.edu (Maurice S. Barnum) writes:
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>kfogel@mark1.cs (Karl Fogel) writes:
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>>In article <1993Mar4.213038.22740@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) writes:
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>>>Then the mistake:
>>>
>>>"rm libc.so.s"
>>>
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>>>Then that sickening feeling crept up on me and I realized what I had done.
>>>Without the library link, nothing was going to run.
>>>
>>>I couldn't even reboot. I just had to turn the machine off after waiting for
>>>it to sync.
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>A staticly linked binary or two wouldn't hurt either. I had a
Hehe, FS corruption on an SCO box renamed libc_s on me once. Took me
quite a while to figure out what was wrong. *NOTHING* would run.
Couldn't even shut it down properly. I now have static copy of my own
'cat' and 'mv' commands just for SCO.
BTW, I think I'd wait for sync, and boot a floppy with fsck myself too.
-- Keith Smith uunet!ksmith!keith 5719 Archer Rd. Digital Designs BBS 1-919-423-4216 Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201 Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...