i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!

[Robert Nichols]

Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Someone wrote:
> 
>>One thing that still confuses me is how you only deleted /usr/bin when
>>the command you gave us would have deleted a lot more than that.
> 
> 
> It probably did.
> Apparently he hit ^C before it finished with /usr.
> In that case, /var is probably intact,
> but /usr is missing more than /usr/bin.

If the /var/lib/rpm directory and its files are still intact, then
"rpm -V" should give a pretty accurate reckoning of what files are
missing.

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Bob Nichols         rnichols42 at comcast.net