Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:29:20 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: missing libncurses.so.5 and other lib* Message-ID: <20040503152920.744795D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 May 2004 19:33:21 PDT." <4095AF71.6080906@obsecurity.org>
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> Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 19:33:21 -0700 > From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Joshua Boyd wrote: > > >> If you have a /rescue directory (which you should), then > >> boot into single user mode and specify /rescue/sh as your > >> shell. Next, mount your filesystems with /rescue/mount > >> and restore the missing libraries from your backup tapes. > >> > >> > >> > > Yes, I'm sure that he has backup tapes for his laptop. *rolls eyes* > > You mean you don't back up the contents of your laptop that runs > -CURRENT? You must like living dangerously and/or spending lots of time > recovering from errors. Lots of people live dangerously for a long time without realizing it. I've been running CURRENT on my laptop since months before 5.0-Release and I think I've only had to resort to my backup once. If I had been luckier, it would have never happened. (And, if my timing had been a bit worse, it could have happened a LOT more often.) Until someone has been bitten, they almost never do backups and, after being bitten they get careless after a while. Takes a few bites (or a really nasty one) before the lesson is really learned. (Glances at laptop running dd(1) as we speak. Yes, I had already started it before reading this thread.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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