<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>I'm rescuing around now.... /etc and /home are missing<br><br><br>------------------------<br>
Keith Smith<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 3/27/13, Brian Cluff <i><brian@snaptek.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com><br>Subject: Re: Lost access to server<br>To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org><br>Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 6:59 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Sounds to me like either your hard drive just died, or you accidentally <br>moved your /bin and/or /usr directories some place the system couldn't <br>get to them.<br><br>If all you did was move them, just pop in a bootable CD and move the <br>directories back into the correct place and everything should be OK again.<br><br>Brian Cluff<br><br>On 03/27/2013 06:46 PM, keith smith wrote:<br>><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I have a LAMP server setup in my home office that serves two of my<br>> websites. It was working
great until several hours ago.<br>><br>> I was moving some files around and lost the use of the mv command. I<br>> closed the shell and just came back. I notice my email is not working<br>> and I cannot open a shell session. Not sure what I may have done. I<br>> cannot log in using the keyboard and monitor attached to the machine.<br>> Nothing happens when I enter my user name.<br>><br>> I am about to reboot. What do I have to lose?<br>><br>> HTTP is still working.<br>><br>> Any suggestions how I can get in and determine what I may have done?<br>><br>> I now get a prompt grub><br>><br>> Yikes!!<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>><br>> Keith<br>><br>><br>> ------------------------<br>> Keith Smith<br>><br>><br>><br>> ---------------------------------------------------<br>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a
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