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Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This newbie would like some help with the following problem:
Okay. Follow closely.
It began with a cd to /tmp
All right so far.
and then a rm -r /tmp.
You must have been root at this time? /tmp is pretty much necessary for
This newbie would like some help with the following problem:
It began with a cd to /tmp and then a rm -r /tmp. I then wanted to cd ~ but
did cd ` byy mistake.
This replaced the usual prompt $ by . I then tried to get a new xterm
window by clicking
the afterstep icon. Nothing happened. I then
Albert Hurd wrote:
Could anyone tell me what happened and how to recover. Thanhs so much.
As root:
mkdir /tmp
chmod 1777 /tmp
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Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It began with a cd to /tmp and then a rm -r /tmp. I then wanted to cd ~ but
did cd ` byy mistake.
You removed your /tmp dir. The Xserver (and other programms) save
temporary data in it, so you get into problems as you saw by yourself.
If you want to
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