[KLUG Members] Attempting to fix a server

[Jamie McCarthy]

adamb at glaven.org (Adam Bultman) writes:

> I'm guessing that my /etc/passwd is tanked, and that I'll need
> to rebuild it somehow - does that sound like a reasonable
> guess?

Sure.  Look at the file in single-user mode, its format is easy.

You were keeping backups, right?  Burn a backup copy of /etc from
before the corruption started onto a CD, boot into single-user mode
and mount the CD, and diff them.

> The server's purpose has since been usurped by another, but I'd
> like to find out what went wrong on this thing, so at least I
> know what to check for in the future.

What went wrong was that SCSI card.  Everything after that is
forensic analysis, and every murder scene looks different so I don't
think you'll learn much.  So... what brand was that card?
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