[GTALUG] How much do you know about how linux executes binaries?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 01:46:04PM -0500, Nicholas Krause via talk wrote:
> My first idea would be to echo $PATH and see if the path is messed up or
> /etc/profile or other bash startup scripts are not screwed up. Not sure what
> the errors were but that's the first place to start.
> 
> If that's fine then /bin is a symlink from /usr/bin these days to something
> in /usr/bin and I would less if my symlinks for /bin are now screwed up
> and fix that. The real question through is how much of root is overwritten
> in this case.

Nothing at all was overwritten.  A lot was moved however to the wrong
place.

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Len Sorensen