Help! NIMDA

[Josef Karthauser]

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:56:21PM +0100, Thomas Beauchamp wrote:
> Hi!
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> On my FreeBSD  4.2 server, logged as 'root', I type by mistake following
> command:
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> rm -R / *.eml
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> What is the extent of the damage, please.
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> It looks as if almost everything is erased.

Whoops.  It's not going to be easy to fix.  Will almost definitely
require a reinstall.

It _may_ be possible to recover some of the data, but I don't know
off the top of my head whether there are any tools around for that.

Joe

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