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Re: How to restore /bin?



On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:02:17 +1100
John O'Hagan <johnohagan@iprimus.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In an unfortunate (beer-related) incident, I rm'ed /boot and /bin from my etch 
> laptop. I had /boot backed up, but not /bin, so I copied that from an oldish 
> Mepis CD. 

I did this once to /etc, same circumstances.... meant to rm -rf /etc/cups or somesuch and accidentally entered rm -rf /etc /cups   and that was that.

my suggestion? change root password to: "am_I_drinking?" ;)

A

> 
> To my surprise, most things seem to be working; but I'm wondering if I can 
> expect problems, and if there's a way of restoring /bin to the correct state 
> for an up-to-date testing system?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John 
> 
> 
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