Thanks to alan_at_nabeth, Warren Sturm, Tom Blinn, Elizabeth Harvey and
Prithwish Chatterjee for responding. I tried two methods, both of which
worked. I copied the bin directory from the installation media cdrom and I
did an install on a spare disk and copied the bin directory over to the
fractured disk after mounting it. One caveat, su came up without the setuid
bit set, so I could su to other users from root, but not to root from users
in the system group. After I set the bit, of course, it worked. I don't
know if there are any other gotchas in store, but I am going to restore from
a backup as soon as I get my new tape drive, for now it is functional.
Original post below:
> A student accidently removed /usr/bin, or most of it anyways, trying to
> update symlinks for a new version of JDK.(don't ask) The tape drive that
> was used for the backups is kaput as of last weekend.(perfect timing) Is
> there a way to recover the /usr/bin executables that came with the
original
> installation from the installation media? I just want to insure a
> reasonable level of functionality until the recovery from tape can be
made.
>
fybar
Received on Tue Mar 19 2002 - 16:45:58 NZST