Deleting ld.so is a very common trick of the Solaris newbie with root. I'd
forgotten about that one.

Thanks for reminding me of bad memories.

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >>sounds like that might have been another good candidate for solaris's
> >>/usr/sbin/static tools.  my solaris 8 machine has cp, ln, mv, rcp, and
> >>tar in there.
> >
> >But only if you can mount /usr.
>
> very true, but in the event that you have lost ld.so or some other
> crucial shared bobbin (yes, i did this once -- please let's not go
> into the how and why of it), you can use these tools to get it back.
> almost.
>
> chmod would be very good there, as would mknod (as previously noted),
> and mkdir.  after all, what good does it do you to be able to copy
> something from somewhere if you can't make the directory it needs to
> live in and reset the permissions to what they need to be.
>
> i hate booting from cds.
>
>

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