On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 14:12, Jephthah wrote: > > > > Isn't there another thread here about protecting your system? > > Not blindly following instructions from some random person on > > the internet is a good place to start. > > To Rob Rosenthal. Im really sorry for the bad info I gave you. I tried > to retract it but I was too late. > > I'm sure youll get it fixed, with these guys help, and I sure learned my > lesson Of course the *real* fix would be to have handy backups of everything so even when you make a mistake you can easily put back the missing pieces. For anyone with several PC's to cover it is hard to beat backuppc for this: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ The web browser interface lets you see what was there even if you don't need to restore it all. It would be nice if that were included in the fedora distribution. It's just a small perl script but the installation is a little quirky. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx