Something horrible just happened. I had a functional,
accepting-tickets-from-emails RT going, and went to add a virtual host
for another department’s intranet site.
I wasn’t doing anything with RT. I was busy mucking up the apache
config, when I noticed during a restart
Warning: DocumentRoot [/opt/rt3/share/html] does not exist
And thought, what the hell? Went to look, and somehow everything in
/opt/rt3 except etc/ and local/ was blown away. Gone.
The files in etc/ and local/ were the defaults, as from a fresh install.
The directories themselves have a timestamp of about an hour ago.
I immediately went very, very carefully through my bash_history. I see
nothing like the nuke-all rm -rf you’d expect to find in a case like
this. The entire rt3/ dir being blown away I could understand as a bad,
bad typo: the two new versions of etc/ and local/ with all others being
gone completely mystifies me.
Before I go putting this all back, I’d like to identify what happened if
possible. I’m not sure where to even start looking.
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Was opt/rt a link perhaps to usr/local/www/rt ?-----Original Message-----
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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:51:28
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Find / -name rt3 -type dir -print-----Original Message-----
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Was opt/rt a link perhaps to usr/local/www/rt ?
I wish :).
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Locatedb only works for stuff that in your PATH.
Do find -type d not dir.
Did you run yum or apt ?From: “Robert Munsch” Munsch@phillycarshare.org
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:07:18
To: chaim.rieger@gmail.com; rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: RE: [rt-users] RT blown away somehow configging apache2?
root@data:/opt/rt3# find / -name rt3 -type dir -print
find: invalid argument dir' to -type’
In any event, updatedb and ‘locate rt3’ doesn’t find the droids I’m
looking for. These weren’t symlinks, these were the real files; and
they have really Gone Away. I just need to identify how so I don’t do
it again. I don’t see how anything, no matter how wonky, involved in
messing with Apache2 configs could annihilate the RT install, but…
Rob Munsch
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Find / -name rt3 -type dir -print
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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:51:28
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root@data:/opt/rt3# find / -name rt3 -type dir -print
find: invalid argument dir' to -type’
In any event, updatedb and ‘locate rt3’ doesn’t find the droids I’m
looking for. These weren’t symlinks, these were the real files; and
they have really Gone Away. I just need to identify how so I don’t do
it again. I don’t see how anything, no matter how wonky, involved in
messing with Apache2 configs could annihilate the RT install, but…
Rob Munsch
IT Administrator
http://www.PhillyCarShare.org
Our wheels. Your freedom.
215-730-0988 x131
Robert Munsch.vcf (141 Bytes)
Nope, didn’t run any packagers: but this was an install from source.
The source files remain where I unpacked them, which may have been a
mistake: maybe I triggered a reinstall without realizing it? But then,
why did it only create the two directories, instead of all of them?
Rob Munsch
IT Administrator
http://www.PhillyCarShare.org
Our wheels. Your freedom.
215-730-0988 x131
Robert Munsch.vcf (141 Bytes)