Deleted /bin/

Nanne · #1 4th December 2006, 03:55 PM

Hello,
I accidentally deleted the /bin/ dir.
Because i wanted to delete the bin/ dir

Someone know how to get it back?
Reinstall is no option because it is 104km away. (dunno how many miles)
And i got no backups because it is a new server.
I got ssh, webmin access.

pdb · #2 4th December 2006, 05:25 PM

What version of Fedora are you using? Perhaps a user with the same version could send you a tarball of that directory.

Nanne · #3 4th December 2006, 05:57 PM

Fedora core 4... i think i can get the ftp working.
But is it pausble to use the ubuntu /bin dir?

pdb · #4 4th December 2006, 06:11 PM

No, I don't think Ubuntu will work. Some things might work, but RPM is probably the most critical that you will be missing. Once you get RPM and the necessary core utilities working, I think you can use RPM to reinstall the critical packages. You can get a list of packages that install to /bin by running

Code:

rpm -q --all --filesbypkg | grep '[[:space:]]/bin/'

I have FC5 installed, and I didn't back up my /bin directory on FC4. I guess you could try the /bin files from FC5; I wouldn't expect these core utilities to have changed.