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RE: [Xen-users] About: rm -f /bin /sh

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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] About: rm -f /bin /sh
From: Huang Yogi <chi7396@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:01:12 +0800
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Thanks for your patience and help!! 
I try to do  ln -s /bin/bash  /bin/sh and it can work now!

Thanks a lot !!

Best regards,
Yogi

> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:34:17 -0700
> From: Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx
> To: chi7396@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] About: rm -f /bin /sh
>
> Okay, question, first:
> Did you do:
> rm -Rf /bin /sh
> OR
> rm -Rf /bin/sh
>
> ?? Notice the space inbetween the /bin and /sh on the first one. If
> you executed the first one, you're pretty well hosed - you're going to
> need to reinstall several packages to get the files back into /bin. If
> you executed the second one, read on...
>
> If you executed ln -s /bin/sh /bin/bash, and the command succeede d, then
> you have almost certainly wiped out bash with a link to the
> non-existent /bin/sh. With the ln command the first path is the
> existing file and the second path is the link. Since you've
> removed /bin/sh, linking /bin/bash will erase the /bin/bash file and
> replace it with a link to /bin/sh, which doesn't exist. So, at a
> minimum you need to reinstall bash. You'll likely need to boot with a
> rescue CD for this.
>
> -Nick
>

> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 20:49 +0800, Huang Yogi wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> >
> > After I doing: rm -f /bin /sh ,my pc(Debian) can not work anymore,
> >
> > I try to do: ln -s /bin/sh /bin/bash, but it doesn't work;
> >
> >
> > after reboot it shows cannot
> > execute /etc/init.d/rcS ; /etc/init.d/rc...
> >
> >
> >
> & gt; could you help me how to fix this problem!!
> >
> >
> > Thank you so much!!!
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yogi Huang

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