[ILUG] Commands have stopped working

[John Allen]

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 17:47, Darragh wrote:
> > it depends, if darragh wants to spend the next hour or so banging his
> > head against a brick wall and then reinstall or spend the next hour or so
> > reinstalling and configuring everything and then watching the simspons,
> > it's his call i suppose.
>
> Well, considdering that java-access-bridge is a really really horrible
> beast to get running with gnome and gnopernicus reinstalling is really my
> last option, It took me from 2 o clock yesterday to half ten last night
> getting it all working.  I don't want to go threw that again.
>

I guess it is just that your /etc/passwd, and /etc/group we shagged over the 
the setup rpm's pos install script. It may however have saved the originals 
as .rpmsave, or .rpmorig files; so check that.

Other than that just re-add the correct users (make sure they have the correct 
uid/gid)

> Ok, is it possible to find the packages that are broken and just reinstall
> them?
>
> I used ls -lat to go threw the files, there's a lode of files which were
> updated today and even more that were updated yesterday.
>
> Darragh

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John Allen,                          mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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