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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 02:09:48 JST feld

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   FreeBSD is so easy to repair
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     Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 02:09:49 JST Pete Wright
     achievement unlocked - deleted a ton of header files and .so's in /lib/ on my #freebsd shell server running current and was able to manually recover things.
     
     the tricky part was booting from a live image and getting the old openssl.so's in place so sshd could start. then i was able to rebuild the world+kernel manually coping over missing critical files along the way.
     
     sure i could have just reimaged the VM, but then i wouldn't have learnt anything. this time i learned that you never run "make delete-old" without carefully thinking about what you are doing.
     
     i also learned i can still be a classic sysadmin and fix stuff when needed, rather than just shrugging and recreating things from scratch.