[SunHELP] me dumb

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Will Yardley wrote:

| ok so i've just learned the hard way not to strip solaris executables
| with gnu strip.
|
| the good news (i suppose) is that /usr/ucb and /sbin are fine; i just
| messed up /usr/bin.  the other good news is that the machine's services
| seem to be running ok, and i have a shell window open.

Oh geez.

You do know that most of the executables shipped with solaris are already
stripped, yes?

| the bad news is that i have no cdrom in the machine (a sparcstation 5)
| at the moment.  any suggestions on a way to recover from this, and is
| there a way of restoring these packages without reinstalling the OS
| entirely?  presumably i could restore all of the necessary packages if i
| borrow a cdrom again and do it from there.

Mount a CD via nfs to the machine, and lean about 'pkgchk'. pkgchk will
let you know which componets of a installed package do not match what
actually exists, and can reinstall them.

/dale