accidentally deleted ALL empty directories

[edwardsmarkf]

hello -

being the total stupid idiot that i am, i accidentally ran a script that deleted ALL empty directories system-wide. (the script was supposed to accept a parm, but i forgot to first check to make sure the parm exists.)

now my hosting company apparently recoved the boot for me, thankfully.

so far, the only thing i needed to do was to issue:

mkdir -v /etc/modulefiles ;
mkdir -v /usr/share/modulefiles ;
mkdir -v /var/www/html ;

so it seems.

everything else seems to be fine.

is there anything else i might look at? (besides changing careers, please)

[jlehtone]

It is possible to verify the installed packages. (See man rpm):

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rpm -Va

That should reveal missing files/directories.

It is possible to reinstall a package with:

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yum reinstall packageName

[desertcat]

hello -

being the total stupid idiot that i am, i accidentally ran a script that deleted ALL empty directories system-wide. (the script was supposed to accept a parm, but i forgot to first check to make sure the parm exists.)

[snip]

Nah, don't beat yourself up over this -- you are not a "total idiot". We've all done it at least once -- some of the ones that we've read about make yours look mild in comparison.

A good solution is to make sure you have a BACKUP!! A BACKUP will save you a lot of grief if there is TRUE disaster... like your HDD suddenly dies, rolling over the machine causes problems, for reasons unknown files become corrupted, etc.

Happy New Year!!

D'Cat

[edwardsmarkf]

removed.

[edwardsmarkf]

It is possible to verify the installed packages. (See man rpm):

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rpm -Va

That should reveal missing files/directories.

It is possible to reinstall a package with:

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yum reinstall packageName

thank you jletone!

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rpm -Va | grep  missing  > repair.bsh ;

in repair.bsh i change all occurences of 'missing" to

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mkdir -vp

and that seemed to do the trick!

[edwardsmarkf]

hello -

being the total stupid idiot that i am, i accidentally ran a script that deleted ALL empty directories system-wide. (the script was supposed to accept a parm, but i forgot to first check to make sure the parm exists.)

[snip]

Nah, don't beat yourself up over this -- you are not a "total idiot". We've all done it at least once -- some of the ones that we've read about make yours look mild in comparison.

A good solution is to make sure you have a BACKUP!! A BACKUP will save you a lot of grief if there is TRUE disaster... like your HDD suddenly dies, rolling over the machine causes problems, for reasons unknown files become corrupted, etc.

Happy New Year!!

D'Cat

D'cat - had this been merely the first time i have done something like this, i would agree. fortunately this one only went after all empty directories. the last time i accidentally ran a script that did:

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##rm -Rf //;  NOTICE THIS IS COMMENTED OUT!

i agree with the backing up, i backup all the user stuff frequently, but not the entire server.