Re: Strange removal of /sbin and /lib
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:42:27 -0800,
Adar Dembo <adar@stanford.edu> wrote in message
<[🔎] 40144653.4060500@stanford.edu>:
> Hey all,
>
> Last night one of my Debian-running laptops was made inoperable by
> the removal of /sbin and /bin. I'm not quite sure why or how this
> happened, but I'll tell you what I did from start to finish.
..snip "how".
> At this point I'm a bit stumped. I'm ready to cut my losses and
> either find replacement /sbin and /lib directories, or outright
> re-partition and re-install Debian, but I'm entirely perplexed as to
> how this catastrophic failure happened. Did some hardware malfunction?
> Was one of the packages corrupt or broken, and apt-get somehow deleted
> the directories? Did somebody regardless manage to break in and remove
> them? If anybody has any ideas, I'm all ears. And if anyone has any
> pointers as to where to look on the laptop for possibly more
> information, I'm also open to that.
..how about playing lan cop and try find out what happened?
I use http://www.linux-forensics.com/
..a few more I found off
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixCustomizations :
http://www.knoppix-std.org/
http://www.phlak.org/
http://www.localareasecurity.com/
http://echelonlinux.free.fr/
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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