I deleted rm! What package is it in?

ozmark · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

I accidentally deleted 'rm'. Does anyone know what package it is in so I can reinstall?

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ElCondor · Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 11:49 am Post subject:

sys-apps/fileutils

deleting rm is quite interesting ... :twisted:

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masseya · Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 12:06 pm Post subject:

You could still delete things by moving them to /dev/null couldn't you?
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lain iwakura · Apprentice Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 176 Location: sd, ca

rm rm ???? :roll:

rm /usr/bin/rm ?????

how could ya do that by accident?

or where you just trying to get rid of some progs in /usr/bin ?
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AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

It could happen, but to fix the problem just emerge fileutils as stated by elcondor.
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masseya · Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2002 2:13 pm Post subject:

Actually, this wouldn't really even be all that big of a problem in general. If you think about all the things that could have been deleted that would have been a lot harder to fix, you'll see that there's a lot worse that could happen. It's certainly a unique problem though.
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wimac · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 28 Location: st. louis, mo

Thanks for the best laugh I've had in weeks, deleting rm thats great....
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balk · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 62 Location: Olanda

hehe, I once unmerged binutils (**DOH**)

resolved by doing an installation on an other partition and after the bootstrap, I build the binutils package and installed it on the main installation......

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ozmark · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

Yeah, yeah, I thought it was funny too. The way it happened is I added a cron entry to delete a file every Thursday (... thu rm /home/file) and I edited it immediately after, wanting to give the entry the full path of rm (... thu /usr/bin/rm /home/file) but ended up inserting the command with path and accidentally left in the original rm (... thu rm /usr/bin/rm /home/file).

Needless to say, rm was deleted the first time cron ran the task. Put it down as a stupid user trick, but you can bet I won't do that again!

Thanks for the info elcondor.

Cheers

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

I know you got this fixed but here is a little FYI in case you need to find out what file belongs to what package:

g00se · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 16

Well, glad you didn't type "rm -rf / bin/rm" by accident

ozmark · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 4

Thanks for the tip on the file-to-package search, AutoBot.

For everybodies info, the emerge of sys-apps/fileutils failed to restore rm - emerge crapped out because it needs rm to complete it's task! I had to copy an rm file from a Suse machine, and then ran the emerge again as a sanity check and everything is happy again. Sheesh, nice experience.

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