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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
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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

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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)