Re: missing libncurses.so.5 and other lib*

From: Kevin Oberman (oberman_at_es.net)
Date: 05/03/04

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    To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:29:20 -0700

    > Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 19:33:21 -0700
    > From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
    > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
    >
    > Joshua Boyd wrote:
    >
    > >> If you have a /rescue directory (which you should), then
    > >> boot into single user mode and specify /rescue/sh as your
    > >> shell. Next, mount your filesystems with /rescue/mount
    > >> and restore the missing libraries from your backup tapes.
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>
    > > Yes, I'm sure that he has backup tapes for his laptop. *rolls eyes*
    >
    > You mean you don't back up the contents of your laptop that runs
    > -CURRENT? You must like living dangerously and/or spending lots of time
    > recovering from errors.

    Lots of people live dangerously for a long time without realizing it.
    I've been running CURRENT on my laptop since months before 5.0-Release
    and I think I've only had to resort to my backup once. If I had been
    luckier, it would have never happened. (And, if my timing had been a bit
    worse, it could have happened a LOT more often.)

    Until someone has been bitten, they almost never do backups and, after
    being bitten they get careless after a while. Takes a few bites (or a
    really nasty one) before the lesson is really learned.

    (Glances at laptop running dd(1) as we speak. Yes, I had already started
    it before reading this thread.) 

    -- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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