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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.241.0.194!news.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!relay.nuxi.com!obrien From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PANIC - At the end of the rope Date: 27 May 1997 06:43:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5mdvq7$6qr$7@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970517163605.6823A-100000@cirrus.axxis.com> <33802FB9.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: nuxi.ucdavis.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41664 Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Yep, looks likely. If you've got stuff from /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin > with bad perms then it's not likely that a single chmod or chown is > going to get you back to health. Why don't you simply restore /bin, > /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/bin from backup? > And if you have it in mind to respond "what backup?" then let me just be Ah, but don't forget the built-in backup we provide -- the Live filesystem. Saved my butt several times when mounting FAT filesystems toasted /usr/lib -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)