Pete Wright on Nostr: achievement unlocked - deleted a ton of header files and .so's in /lib/ on my ...
achievement unlocked - deleted a ton of header files and .so's in /lib/ on my #freebsd shell server running current and was able to manually recover things.
the tricky part was booting from a live image and getting the old openssl.so's in place so sshd could start. then i was able to rebuild the world+kernel manually coping over missing critical files along the way.
sure i could have just reimaged the VM, but then i wouldn't have learnt anything. this time i learned that you never run "make delete-old" without carefully thinking about what you are doing.
i also learned i can still be a classic sysadmin and fix stuff when needed, rather than just shrugging and recreating things from scratch.
the tricky part was booting from a live image and getting the old openssl.so's in place so sshd could start. then i was able to rebuild the world+kernel manually coping over missing critical files along the way.
sure i could have just reimaged the VM, but then i wouldn't have learnt anything. this time i learned that you never run "make delete-old" without carefully thinking about what you are doing.
i also learned i can still be a classic sysadmin and fix stuff when needed, rather than just shrugging and recreating things from scratch.