Base System Rebuild

[ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)]

I have a working root shell. sshd still seems to work fine, for now
atleast.

Ethan House


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Erich Dollansky <
erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:57:53 -0800
> Ethan House <ewh2048 at rit.edu> wrote:
>
> > I inherited a FreeBSD 9.2 machine in pretty bad shape. The base system
> > seems to be all out of whack with missing libraries all over the
> > place. A reinstall of the OS is not an option as I am many states
> > away from the box in question. Having no idea what caused this what
> > is the best way to fix this?
>
> how can you connect to the machine?
>
> If you have any chance to copy files to it as root, I would build a
> 9.2-system on a machine at hand and then copy the files to the affected
> machine until a normal log-in is possible.
>
> It should then be possible to download the 9.2 sources and compile a
> new system locally.
>
> Erich
>