Emergency - need to manually mark a file executable
 

As I detail in a related post in the Newbie forum, I have accidentally deleted my /bin folder.

Crucial to the recovery of my files is the ability to mark a downloaded version of mkdir and gzip executable.

Regrettably, chmod was also lost in the accidental delete.

I am comforable enough with my own skills that I would try to get around this problem the hard way if only I had a guide.

Can anyone help me?

are you sure you lost chmod? that is part of the coreutils package. The easiest way would be to reinstall coreutils. then your chmod command should be there. I get the feeling more stuff then that is screwed up. Good luck:)

To bring this thread up to speed, I accidentally mv'ed a file overtop my /bin direcory. This is my local server, so I do have physical access, but it would be far easier and far less of a headache if I could somehow circumvent this from the command line, without having to actually take out the server, plug it into a monitor, etc, to use a boot cd or other live cd to recreate the directories. Doing a simple locate on coreutils returned only the documentation, but even if I had an rpm or source, I couldn't move it, chmod it, or rpm it anyway. I might be able to make it, but that is relying on the assumption that make requires no binaries usually located in /bin.

Basically, what I require is a way to go into the ext inode that belongs to mkdir, and turn the executable permission bit on. Mind you, I have no idea how to do this, nor have I ever heard about it being done before. But if there were a utility that would let you actually manipulate the FAT, then it might be good to know about. Although, for the record, I will likely just get my hands on SLAX and reconstruct the tree that way.