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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!asuacad!aubxg
- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Tuesday, 29 Dec 1992 14:58:27 MST
- From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92364.145827AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: shlib in /usr/spool/ftp
- Lines: 38
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- Some people might construe this as a flame against Apple, perhaps
- unwarrented, but at this point I don't give a damn.
-
- I was just setting up anon. ftp, and decided to browse through what
- somebody would see when they ftp'd in, and saw what I thought was
- unnecessary "junk" since the man page for ftpd didn't mention it, and
- it did mention everything else I saw. So, I decided to remove it.
- What was it that I removed? A directory called "shlib." Those of you
- who're more experienced with Unix and A/UX probably know the result
- already....
-
- Things immediately started going weird; it was then that I realized
- that the directory had been hard linked to /shlib, which apparently
- is Very Important, even though I've not yet seen any mention of it
- in any man page. I then rebooted, figuring that anything that
- important would get replaced from the autorecovery partition. That's
- what it's there for, no? Aparently not.
-
- Now, even the installer won't work; I figure I'm going to have to
- steal a machine from somewhere, physically put my drive in it, install
- A/UX on the other drive (the one that originally came with the new
- machine), and hope that I can dump the filesystem with all my files
- in it, so I won't have to go back to a month-old backup.
-
- So why didn't Apple mention this all-important directory, and the
- consequences of removing it? And why was it hard linked in the most
- vulnerable spot in the whole machine in the first place?
-
- I'm definately not happy. I've got deadlines pressing close, and now
- I have to spend at least the rest of the day, and probably most or
- all of tomorrow, cleaning up this mess. Sure, I should have known
- better, but so should Apple. A/UX is, after all, an attempt at Unix
- for those who don't know much about Unix, right? It seems to me I
- should have been warned.
-
- Grrrr.
-
- b&
-