From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 23 00:18:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359091065670 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:18:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jimmiejaz@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f193.google.com (mail-pz0-f193.google.com [209.85.222.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C918FC0A for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jimmiejaz@gmail.com) Received: by pzk31 with SMTP id 31so512039pzk.3 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:18:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=sPFX6Jm0OHzjK44vXeH32YF8FgZh9rc6TQa0JhFsx7k=; b=LxpZKQ6AluDVxdqRNx5WgiipM5o6aXE/FReb2KB5Bzlp4LhCIlRYV3QtSoBIloFnh8 PFO4gWH6uLvW5WVeaSuNyYOCszMQG+zausdYrXMtQomBovglPqcEjWzsYpX5e90+FpZA 9+tvOx6x5AX61BZ5JYYXjQjx6dkSvE1O88QXg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AWZfYmS5lv4KkFkSDyyGfnOlvhO+EDSLjOr4dhNhVs+8MsO8+Be7pZZTcmP2zLEoos FJCXONZsbDfeprz1cNMDbQeqWZ9Gh4MJV7M53zZduc2x+per6jf8vlDCDb7/mYr3q3WT wZwAqP7PeR/wtQFoGgufKo9iynVRdK2FNXSjo= Received: by 10.114.176.17 with SMTP id y17mr1477936wae.169.1248308290512; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jimmiejaz.org (bas1-toronto44-1177949408.dsl.bell.ca [70.54.20.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k37sm2102314waf.42.2009.07.22.17.18.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A67AC39.2060805@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:18:01 -0400 From: Jimmie James User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17pre (X11/20090722) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: rm -rf and fat fingers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jimmiejaz@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:18:11 -0000 So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su jimmie@jimmiejaz <101> [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib (note the space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) Now, a lot of libs went missing from /usr/local/lib. With libchk, last locatedb I've been able to reinstall most of the libs. My ~/ *seems* unaffected, but I'm worried about that, I don't notice anything missing, but I could be wrong. What I'm thinking is the rm -rf found no 'cd' and moved to wipe out /usr/local/lib Would this be a correct assumption? And yes, I sat in the stupid corner with the dunce hat on. -- Over the years I've come to regard you as people I've met. I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other, and when I am alone I am togethe