1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, While playing with my LINUX machine i accidently deleted a file name called /etc/passwd . Even though the system is booted am unable to get the login prompt. Is there any remedy for this problem.:( (5 Replies)

2. Solaris

If you delete your lost & found directory, how do you get it back, just do a mkdir? (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hiiii, I have written a script which takes backup of some log files. let say the backuplocation is --- /abc/backuplocation -rw-r--r-- 1 webmut2 spgroup 0 Jan 27 02:41 ansrpt23994.log -rw-r--r-- 1 webmut2 spgroup 0 Jan 27 02:41 ansrpt3601.log -rw-r--r-- 1... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, We have a file which needs supper user previleges to delete. There are 10 users having super user preveleges. Some times back that file got deleted. How to know who has deleted that file? (6 Replies)

5. Solaris

Hi Guys, I have an user's home directory set to /home/A And A contains the following directories B & C Is there some way in solaris by which i can prevent the directories B and C from getting deleted by the user but the contents of the directories B & C can be deleted ? Also i have... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I accidentally deleted the usr on/. How can I start the server again? (5 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All, I am using Fedora Core and Windows Xp. I deleted all the files from root directory. When i am trying to restart the computer it showing some grub > prompt. What i will do ? I have lots of data in XP OS. Please help me i used # rm * (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am having a problem in the below code:-. $ cat x.csv baseball,NULL,8798765,Most played,0,5,12367,NULL,NULL,98,67,Reason is not sufficient baseball,NULL,8928192,Most played,0,4,76893,NULL,RAW,54,78,Reason is not sufficient baseball,NULL,5678945,Most played,9,2,1,6,NULL,6789,123,Reason... (4 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I accidentally deleted a very important directory today with this rm -r. What would be the recommended way to recover my directory? After a lot of googleing I have seen these choices. Could I get some recommendations please? Testdisk Photorec- Doesn't recover file name like I would like. ... (10 Replies)

10. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support

One of my directory code where i have stored all my scripts have disappeared . I have no idea on how it got deleted.Could someone pls help me to track-back on what would have happened? I left the office yesterday and today when i just logged in to work with the scripts I could not find the... (13 Replies)