[CentOS] Missing /usr/share/perl5 in C7

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Mark Haney wrote:
> On 11/29/2017 01:43 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Mark Haney wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Any idea what happened?
>>
>> No idea what could have happened, but if it were me, I wouldn't copy
>> anything - I'd yum reinstall instantly. You have no idea what *else* is
>> missing.
>>
>> Thinking about it... you might consider verifying the entire system.
>> Since something's missing from initscripts, I'd worry a *lot*.
>
> Believe me, I am.  Unfortunately and unbeknownst to me, this box has
> been in production on the customer side for a couple of weeks now.
> I've checked every other box that's been kickstarted for the last month
> and none show the same problems.  It's really bizarre.

Some admin ran find / -exec rm -f {} \;, when they meant to run find
/somepathorother.
>
> And as far as the /etc/init.d/functions file goes, C7 doesn't place it
> there, it's in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, so symlinking to it from
> /etc/init.d/ fixed that particular problem.
>
> The weird issue with /usr/share/perl5/ is that there was some files and
> directories there, just not everything, so it wasn't completely empty.
> I have no real answer to that, though.
>
> But, right now, the box is stable for what it will be doing, and I've
> got a production MySQL server to troubleshoot why it's imploded twice
> the last two nights after being up for 400 days without trouble.
>
> The joys of dealing with multiple dumpster fires at a time is why I love
> (and hate) IT.
>
Best of luck.

    mark