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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Something horrible just happened. I had a functional,
accepting-tickets-from-emails RT going, and went to add a vi<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">rt</st1:PersonName>ual host for another depa<st1:PersonName w:st="on">rt</st1:PersonName>ment’s
intranet site.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I wasn’t doing anything with RT. I was busy mucking
up the apache config, when I noticed during a resta<st1:PersonName w:st="on">rt</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Warning: DocumentRoot [/opt/<st1:PersonName w:st="on">rt</st1:PersonName>3/share/html]
does not exist<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And thought, what the hell? Went to look, and somehow
everything in /opt/<st1:PersonName w:st="on">rt</st1:PersonName>3 except etc/
and local/ was blown away. Gone. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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 <st1:PersonName w:st="on">rt</st1:PersonName>3/
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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Before I go putting this all back, I’d like to
identify what happened if possible. I’m not sure where to even sta<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">rt</st1:PersonName> looking.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Berlin Sans FB"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Berlin Sans FB"'>------------------------</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Rob Munsch</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>IT Administrator</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.PhillyCarShare.org">http://www.Philly<strong><b><font
size=3 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:green'>Car</span></font></b></strong>Share.org</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Our</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
wheels. </span></font><strong><b><font color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='color:green'>Your</span></font></b></strong><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> freedom.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>215-730-0988 x131</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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