Re: [cobalt-users] **IMPORTANT Please Please Please help!!!!

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry I didn't see this until today <frown>.

"Kacey A. Murphy" wrote:

> I am in dire need of some help.
> Was working late and accidentally typed rm -R local i hit CTRL Z in the
> middle of it uninstalling when I realized I typed LOCAL instead of LOCA (a
> directory I mispelled and wanted to delete.

That's why we're never supposed to be logged in as root unless
absolutely necessary <frown>.

> Is there any way to recover this, have a GUI backup of users and stuff, but
> no system hard backup of any sort.

Most linux gurus say no.  If you turn off the system immediately, some
people say it's possible, but it's possibly a lot more work than
reinstalling.

> Please reply, do I have to RESTORE OS or is there another way, what is even
> in the LOCAL directory.

If you mean /usr/local, it's full of important programs for the RaQ, and
the RaQs default majordomo installation.

You can probably get copies of the entire directory from someone else
with the same model system, and copy everything in... EXCEPT... the
majordomo directory.  Hopefully you've got a backup of that.

Jeff
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