> > Hey All, > > > > Bit of a problem here - I ran rm /* > > It didn't remove the directories obviously but now no commands work but > cd > > cd is a bash-builtin, that's why it works. "echo", "type", "cat", etc > also work, I suppose. >
> > I was wanting to run ./* > > Now if I ls I get > > -su: /bin/ls: No such file or directory > > I suppose the /bin/ls file still is OK (test by "cd /bin; echo *", you > should see ls as one of the many commands listed), but either > /lib/ld-linux.so or some other library has gone. That is strange, as > just typing "rm /*" should not remove anything but files in / , so I > suspect you actually typed something else than "rm /*" > > Yea echo * works - and it looks like the files in the subfolders are in place. Maybe i deleted some aliases that were in the root directory? I'm not seeing /lib/ld-linux.so - but I am seeing ld-2.3.6.so and ld-linux.so.2 Only command run that would have messed things up was the "rm /*" command. It's a pretty fresh install of Debian so all the files should be in their usual locations. > > Help much appreciated. > > Insert debian boot CD, boot, mount your root partition of harddisk, > and inspect it. > Maybe you only removed a few files from /lib, you might be able to > copy them from the boot disk /lib. But I suppose a re-install of > Debian would be safer (or wait till someone else has a better idea on > this list). > If there's a way to do it without having to put a cd in would be really great =o The server is pretty far away - but if not then so be it. Thank you for the help, Abraham
