Re: Chaos on a Linux box!

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:15:21 -0800, Krish wrote:

Hi guys,

Someone in my organisation who is high enough in the management chain
has access to the root password on one of our servers and while writing
some shell scripts, executed the command:

mv ${SOME_DIR}/* BKUP_<some date suffix>/

After that, no one's been able to login to that server through rsh or
telnet. I suspect that he used a wrong variable value (there must've
been no variable like SOME_DIR in his code).

Since it moved pretty much everything under the '/' to another
directory, all the paths are haywire and nothing is working. Adding to
that, he even closed that session in alarm. So the only hope of
recovery is also gone with the wind.

Any tips on how to login to that system and remedy the situation by
copying the / contents to their proper places?

Thanks a million!


Could you use Tom's rootboot? http://www.toms.net/rtbt/

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