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From: daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Being `well and truly up the creek' on a 7300
Message-ID: <744@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 04:20:15 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 16 04:20:15 1985
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> In article <2200@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> >One of the most, er, `interesting' things that can happen to a root
> >file system is to lose /dev (have it turn into an ordinary file or
> >soemthing)...
>
> ...out /dev & /bin, but still had /etc and /usr.  Using /etc/mknod, I was..

A distressing thing can happen on the Unix PC following a graceless 
shutdown:  Lose the shared library in /lib/shlib.  When you reboot,
*nothing* works.  There's no usefull error message, and all the tiny
little executables Convergent, er, AT&T delivers go, "Accck-pfffft."

It's fun shuffling things around off of the boot floppy to the HD in 
order to get to the point where it is possible to recover a copy.

-dB
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