Fat fingered the usr dir.

m.roth2006 at rcn.com m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Mon Feb 19 22:15:10 UTC 2007


>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:31:47 -0600
>From: "Jim Canfield" <jcanfield at tshmail.com>  
>
>Here's a fun one...
>
>I have a test machine (Centos 4) that I just rm -Rf'd the /usr/bin dir 
>(...long story).  What is the best approach to restoring it?

I hope you have a backup....

Mmm, if it's *only* /usr/bin, and you have another machine, why not just copy the directory and contents over from the other machine? I just checked, btw, and on RHEL 4, there's /bin/tar, so that works.

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