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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Ray <ray@stilltech.net>
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Subject: Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?
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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 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?

Sure, just restore what you need from those backups you have 
so diligently been making --- :-)

////jerry

> thanks,
> Ray 
> 
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