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All are welcome, the more the better...

You can post whatever you want... there is only one rule, don't use terrorist threats against the USA government.

I would rather not attract attention.   But whatever else you want to chat about, that is fine.

I got the Berkley DB package installed last night, it took while to make.  I tried installing PostFix and it still stays it can't find db.h file...   it is there, it is part of the Berkley DB package..  I think the Berkley directory needs to be on the path.

So I have a question.  How to you put something on the command path in Linux?  

Again, all are welcome.  If you aren't political wennie, there are other topic's like guns and backpacking etc...   Have fun....

It is a good feeling to be hosting a full forum website on a P133MHZ laptop running DSL.
BIG PROBLEM... CAN YOU GUYS HELP>???

Last night I started the Berkley DB package make install, it was going fine.  I left it alone to finish.   I tried getting to my forum to check it to see who or if anyone added anything.  I got the Apache error saying file not found....

I couldn't get to my forum, website or anything...so I went and checked the server(Laptop)....   Guess what? The /opt directory had been complete deleted.

Now, I wouldn't this it was the Berkley software that did it, I think it was probably hacked.   Has this ever happened?I I am not sure what happened, all I know if I have to start all over.   Is there something that I need to do to tighten up security?  I am not 100% sure it was a hacker, but the whole /opt directory is gone.  There is no /opt directory...
Is there anyway to get the opt directory back?   I know it is still out there on the disk.... Does linux have a restore command?

The forum was running so well and I was talking so much smack to the Windoze users....  

Maybe I need more experience with setting up security Linux before I run my website...

Any input will be great appreicated...  

(BTW,,,  if you try to hit my site right now, it is up, but running on my Win2k machine... it is the old website and forum.)
Does the Berkley DB software come packaged in a .tar.gz file and with a /opt directory inside the .tar.gz?

If so, untarring it could have overwritten your /opt directory with a new one.
So did you do the persistant /opt directory on the hd?

Hmmm...very very very wierd..I saw your site go down the other day too...is wierd....

I doubt you got hacked...but loosing the entire /opt dir is a bad thing

Brian
AwPhuch
cbagger01 said, "Does the Berkley DB software come packaged in a .tar.gz file and with a /opt directory inside the .tar.gz?

If so, untarring it could have overwritten your /opt directory with a new one."

No, that didn't happen because I would still have an /opt directory...

There is no more /opt directory, it is totally gone.

AwPhunch, explain to my persistant please....  does that make it not able to delete?  Or back it up or something?

Talk to me Brian, I need to know... I am will be repairing the system.   In fact, I have a P166 Compaq desktop (Deskpor 2000) with 128mb and it is all SCSI, I am think of using it instead.  But I will probably mess around with the compaq.  

Good thing is, I documented everything, so this next time around it should be quicker to setup.
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