I deleted rm! What package is it in?

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ozmark · Post by **ozmark** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 11:24 am

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

Cheers

ElCondor · Post by **ElCondor** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 11:49 am

sys-apps/fileutils

deleting rm is quite interesting ...

* ElCondor pasa *

Post by **masseya** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 12:06 pm

You could still delete things by moving them to /dev/null couldn't you?

lain iwakura · Post by **lain iwakura** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 12:54 am

rm rm ????

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 ?

AutoBot · Post by **AutoBot** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 7:33 am

It could happen, but to fix the problem just emerge fileutils as stated by elcondor.

Post by **masseya** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 2:13 pm

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.

wimac · Post by **wimac** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 3:55 pm

Thanks for the best laugh I've had in weeks, deleting rm thats great....

balk · Post by **balk** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 5:49 pm

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......

ozmark · Post by **ozmark** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 6:05 pm

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 · Post by **AutoBot** » Tue Jun 25, 2002 3:55 am

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:

Code: Select all

# assuming you have gentoolkit
qpkg -f /bin/rm
sys-apps/fileutils *

g00se · Post by **g00se** » Tue Jun 25, 2002 9:35 am

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

ozmark · Post by **ozmark** » Tue Jun 25, 2002 11:32 am

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.

Cheers

I deleted rm! What package is it in?

I deleted rm! What package is it in?

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