copy what you want to retain and reinstall if you get no answers

man dd
dd if /<desired directory> of <where you want it to go>


On Thursday 09 November 2006 8:28 am, vodhner@cox.net wrote:
> I am trying to recover a CentOS 4 system that is mostly working but is
> missing some pieces.
>
> When the box came to me, I stumbled on the fact that the passwd command was
> missing, though it had been used recently.  When I obtained a replacement
> copy (which might not have been correct for this CentOS version), it gave
> me this message:
>
>     passwd: error while loading shared libraries: libuser.so.1:
>         cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Of course I could rebuild the whole system, no big deal.  But the /home
> tree and other things are all in the root filesystem and I'd like to keep
> that stuff.  Is there some way I could use yum for example, to do an
> override restore of the basic system?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vic
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