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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users replacing corrupt /tmp dir.. Post 73171 by moxxx68 on Saturday 28th of May 2005 06:29:04 PM
Old 05-28-2005
sorry! NOT \ i meant / as in chmod xxx /... everything hit xxx and the only dir i couldn't save was /tmp i couldn't quite get the permisssions right... obviuosly /tmp would be one of the more difficult to guess.. i managed to retrieve the other directories by upgradingb the system to install everything.. /tmp though boogered up g-conf and that corrupted the whole operating system eventually including the kde desktop and was irretrievable.

edit: if i could have got rid of /tmp somehow before the bug i created spread i could have saved the system and a whole lot of hassle.. but the os won't boot without /tmp.. so i couldn't do anything..
Last edited by moxxx68; 05-28-2005 at 07:34 PM..
 

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NAME

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DESCRIPTION

       This program shows the paths to module pods that are in the site_perl directories.

EXAMPLES

	   $ sitepods
	   /usr/local/devperl/lib/site_perl/5.00554/i686-linux/XML/Parser/Expat.pm
	   /usr/local/devperl/lib/site_perl/5.00554/i686-linux/XML/Parser.pm

       You can also run this using alternate perl binaries, like so:

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