missing libncurses.so.5 and other lib*

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 19:33:21 -0700
> From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 
> >> If you have a /rescue directory (which you should), then
> >> boot into single user mode and specify /rescue/sh as your
> >> shell.  Next, mount your filesystems with /rescue/mount
> >> and restore the missing libraries from your backup tapes.
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> > Yes, I'm sure that he has backup tapes for his laptop.  *rolls eyes*
> 
> You mean you don't back up the contents of your laptop that runs 
> -CURRENT?  You must like living dangerously and/or spending lots of time 
> recovering from errors.

Lots of people live dangerously for a long time without realizing it.
I've been running CURRENT on my laptop since months before 5.0-Release
and I think I've only had to resort to my backup once. If I had been
luckier, it would have never happened. (And, if my timing had been a bit
worse, it could have happened a LOT more often.)

Until someone has been bitten, they almost never do backups and, after
being bitten they get careless after a while. Takes a few bites (or a
really nasty one) before the lesson is really learned.

(Glances at laptop running dd(1) as we speak. Yes, I had already started
it before reading this thread.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634