[ale] Oops!!!! rm -rf /etc/*

[Jim Popovitch]

Hi Michael,

What distro are you running right now?  Perhaps someone can tar their /etc
directory up and send it to you, that might be a starting point.

-Jim P.

--- Michael Golden <naugrimk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was going through my drive trying to clear up space
> and I noticed that /tmp had 50+MB filled in it through
> various directories and I didn't have anything
> important open, so I thought I'd just delete what was
> in there. Well, I accidentally typed "rm -rf /etc/*"
> instead of "rm -rf /tmp/*" I have no idea how to fix
> it and I don't dare reboot since everything in
> /etc/init.d is gone now too. I upgraded my kernel via
> RPM this session, so now none of my modules work to
> get access to the CD to try to reinstall some of the
> stuff so that I can know it will boot. Things like
> inittab, fstab, etc. are gone too. Any advice on how
> to fix it? I can't really reinstall. When I tried to
> update to Mandrake 8.1 it already told me there wasn't
> enough space to install and I have no way to back up
> my data now that my samba modules and config are gone.
> Help!!
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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