Hi, I had the misfortune of someone moving the /bin and /lib directories to another subdirectory /opt/OV/bin during his attempt to install OV monitoring - basicly forgot to put a . in his mv command ( should have been mv ./bin to /opt/OV/bin from within whatever directory he was - he ended up doing mv /bin /opt/OV/bin) Doing this ended up loosing symlinks and paths to the standard /bin. We tried to remedy this in several ways e.g creating symlinks to the new location etc. The problem is that I doubt if the machine will recover on reboot in the current state. The bad part is that as this machine has just been installed no sys backup has been made yet - the main application install tune etc. took 2 weeks. I used swverify to check the status of the core OS etc and of course it came up with all the thousands of errors of permissions modes etc. My question is could I use the swverify fix option to restore the unlinked files -libraries etc. or would this just screw it up further ? Any comments on a solutiion will be helpfull.
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