[Gloucs] Never ask me to admin your server!

[Paul Broadhead]

Thomas Adam <thomas_adam at bonbon.net> wrote:

> > rm -rf/var/lib, yes /var/lib!  Oops, there goes my entire /var/lib
> > directory tree, not just the cvs directory.  No backup yet, Bum!
> 
> Well, that was silly! Generally my approach to that sort of thing is to:
> 
> 1. If you have a /var tree (and I am assuming Debian here) on a similar
> box, copy that over. Don't worry about a mis-match of packages that
> can be sorted out later....

I knew I should have posted here first.  Next time I'll try your
solution!  As it happened, the reinstall was much simpler than I
expected.  Even cvs is working now :)

Regards,
Paul