Help with ppp id-down script

[mazibuko]

Hello,

I was trying to get a VPN working for my university, and accidentally
did an rm on /etc/ppp/ip-down, instead of ip-down.local.

If anyone has ppp 2.4.5 on their machine, and wouldn't mind posting me
a copy of their script (I hadn't modified the ip-down at all), I would
be most appreciative.

If it makes a difference for these files, I am on 11.1 KDE 4.2.

Thanks.


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[Malcolm]

Hello,

I was trying to get a VPN working for my university, and accidentally
did an rm on /etc/ppp/ip-down, instead of ip-down.local.

If anyone has ppp 2.4.5 on their machine, and wouldn't mind posting me
a copy of their script (I hadn't modified the ip-down at all), I would
be most appreciative.

If it makes a difference for these files, I am on 11.1 KDE 4.2.

Thanks.

Hi
Here you go....
/etc/ppp/ip-down


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[ken yap]

If you find that you have deleted one file from a package which you have
not modified from the original, there is a way to extract just that file
from the RPM package. You need to be comfortable with CLI and RPM files
for this. I won't describe some maneuvers in detail.

First find which package owns the file:


Code:
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$ rpm -qf /etc/ppp/ip-down
sysconfig-0.71.11-7.2
--------------------


Turns out it's in sysconfig.

Next, get hold of the RPM one way or another. If it's on the DVD you
need to mount the DVD. If you have the ISO image, you can loop mount it.
Otherwise you can fetch it from the repo with your web browser. Then run
rpm2cpio to convert the RPM to a CPIO image and you can view its
contents like this:


Code:
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$ rpm2cpio sysconfig-0.71.11-7.2.x86_64.rpm | cpio -itv | grep down
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Dec 3 21:45 ./etc/ppp/ip-down -> ip-up
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Dec 3 21:45 ./etc/ppp/ipv6-down -> ip-up
--------------------


So in fact it's just a symlink to ip-up and you can fix it by remaking
the link. But if you had to extract it, you would do:


Code:
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# cd /
# rpm2cpio /somewhere/sysconfig-0.71.11-7.2.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv ./etc/ppp/ip-down
--------------------


It's important to be in / for the extraction and also to use the exact
path as stored in the CPIO archive, that's why we entered
./etc/ppp/ip-down


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[mazibuko]

Hi,

Thanks very much to both of you for the file and the advice for how to
recover (stupidly) deleted files. I very much appreciate the time and
effort.

Thanks!


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[mazibuko]

P.S. I tried out the extraction route you suggested, and worked well. A
good learning experience, thanks!


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