On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 05:53 +0000, Arun Khan wrote: > No worries - just be calm, come up with a strategy and I am sure > things will work out. > > Success of the suggestions will depend on the competency of the VPS > providers tech support. > > Unless this is a production server, if all else fails you can refresh > the VPS image I suppose. > > My two cents.
Thank you for the information about the VMWare Disk Images, Arun. I was just parroting what the tech support guys told me. I'm glad to hear that if all else fails I can probably just have them mail me the image for me to get what I need out. You were right with your guess that I was attempting to mimic Ubuntu's method of dealing with root privileges. It seemed elegant at the time, but obviously there were holes in the way I handled it. My backups are a week or two out of date, so I'd really love to have the files back but it's not something I can't recover from. I've forwarded Raja Subramanian's detailed and helpful reply to the people there and I'm fairly hopeful now. Regards, -- Roshan George <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
