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

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Dec 11 16:51:51 EST 2019


On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 03:46:25PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> All the files and directories in the root directory will have been moved in
> to the /var directory with the exception of the /lib and /opt directories
> which already existed in /var.
> 
> First step is move the bin directory back to its normal position using
> "bin/mv bin /". After that command you will have normal access to ls and mv
> once more and you can move other files and directories out of /var and back
> to / where they belong.

Unfortunately /lib64 did move to /var and made executing anything tricky.
/lib was fine, but not helpful for system tools.

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Len Sorensen


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