[Gloucs] Never ask me to admin your server!
Paul Broadhead
lug at twinmoons.clara.co.uk
Mon Jul 5 20:08:45 BST 2004
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
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