Learn from my mistakes

[andrzej]

System =
OpenBSD 2.9, physically about 1km from me

Wanted to do =
Untar src.tar.gz and srcsys.tar.gz under /usr/src

Have done =
cd /usr
tar xzf /home/andrzej/src.tar.gz

Should have done =
cd /usr
mkdir src
cd src
tar xzf /home/andrzej/src.tar.gz

Problem =
/usr/src/libexec/ld.so used to an important library file
/usr/src/libexec/ld.so is now a directory containing sources (so are /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc).
Most programs will fail ("Failure reading ld.so&quot. Only /bin works.

Solution ? =
I have another OpenBSD 2.9 box - copy /usr/* from there

Drawback =
scp won't work ("Failure reading ld.so&quot

Workaround =
I've noticed there is rcp in /bin
Enabled rlogin on the second box, managed to copy files

Big mistake =
In meantime, wanting to give up, pressed ctrl-D, I'm not root any more

Why was it a mistake ? =
$ su -
Failure reading ld.so
I cannot remove /usr/libexec now, therefore cannot copy the new version
ssh root login is disabled

Need to go and fix things from the console :'(
Feel free to laugh.

[coltrane]

mistakes happen

i was transferring mp3s to another partition one morning and ended up deleting about 600 or so MP3s.

While it pales in, I almost had an emotional moment.

Till this day I cant find "Rubber Soul" and "Poisinana" on MP3s

[Ashcrow]

I did something like that in OpenBSD 2.9. I downloaded the source and untar'd it. After I had gotten and used what I needed I deleted /usr (meaing to del usr). :

[andrzej]

Finally the system is recovered. God bless single user mode.

[Killer_Penguin]

ouch man... been there done things like that....


Asked a user to pull up a terminal so that I could shut thier box down, to upgrade the CDROM... user pulls up a terminal, I type sudo init 5, system supposed to go down.....

wait...

wait...

Realize when looking at the term again, he had a term open to a production web server..............

about 10 seconds later, the phone/pager goes off... "web server is down!!!!!'
........

[TeRG]

...noted...

[andrzej]

Realize when looking at the term again, he had a term open to a production web server..............

about 10 seconds later, the phone/pager goes off... "web server is down!!!!!'
........

LOL ;D

At least this firewall kept working. I had to take it down for less than 5 minutes.