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[173.48.42.254]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c201sm335789qke.128.2019.09.16.18.38.20 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) From: Clem cole X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (16G102) In-Reply-To: <1583C418-2F6E-45D8-93C2-B93032E6CFFC@ccc.com> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:38:19 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <0bc0d10f-d17c-24df-2a7f-8f154eefd318@kilonet.net> <20190917011752.GY2046@mcvoy.com> <1583C418-2F6E-45D8-93C2-B93032E6CFFC@ccc.com> To: Larry McVoy Subject: Re: [TUHS] wizards test [was roff] X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" I should say you have a root shell on the broken system which why it killed e= very thing.=20 Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.= =20 > On Sep 16, 2019, at 9:36 PM, Clem cole wrote: >=20 > Btw. This was some I used as a wizards test.=20 >=20 > You have a working system next to a system that is still running so you ha= ve the console and its shell but had the rm -fr / done to it. You have lost= all of bin dev etc and lib by the time he hit ^C. So you have some of /us= r inc but much of /usr/bin is still there. No compiler or assembler on th= e broken machine since that was in bin and lib. =20 >=20 > It=E2=80=99s possible to fix it using the other system to help. Just don=E2= =80=99t turn the damaged system off =F0=9F=8D=BA >=20 > Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quit= e.=20 >=20 >>> On Sep 16, 2019, at 9:17 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: >>>=20 >>>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:11:17PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote: >>>> On 9/16/2019 8:20 PM, Steve Johnson wrote: >>>> One day I had been furiously editing a long program file for about an h= our >>>> and a half when I was called away to lunch, and, being hungry, didn't s= ave >>>> my file.?? When I got back to the terminal an hour later, I discovered t= wo >>>> things -- the system had crashed, and our cat had decided that the pile= of >>>> paper >>>> on the floor made a great litter box.?? After a few choice words, I sig= hed >>>> and picked up my highliter... >>>=20 >>> This should be engraved on a plaque somewhere. Only because I had almost= the >>> same thing happen to me, without the cat though. I had a printout of a >>> "mail" program I had written on TOPS-10 at high school. I had to retype t= he >>> entire thing after the file got corrupted. >>=20 >> I think we have all been there. Something always goes wrong. I wrote=20= >> a paper about how to restore a Masscomp because I did rm -rf . in /. >> I believe we had roots home as / because /usr was a different partition. >> Clem, did Masscomp make roots home / or was that us? Anyway, I did a >> cd something >> and somehow deleted the something and then did rm -rf . >> Much fun was had, I was up all night putting things back together. >> This was probably around 1984 or 1985, I was pretty green.