[siliconwafer]

Anyone have any good advice? I was wiping a directory and realized that I was in the *wrong* directory. I wiped /usr/local/lib completely. Most stuff seems to work, but I'm definitely not going to reboot ...

[t_hah]

I seem to have some files there from GimpPrint and others...I am not sure if this helps you or not, but I have the following files in there:

charset.alias
gimp
libSDL-1.2.0.0.6.dylib
libSDL-1.2.0.dylib
libSDL.a
libSDL.dylib
libSDL.la
libSDLmain.a
libdl.0.dylib
libdl.a
libdl.dylib
libfaad.0.0.0.dylib
libfaad.a
libfaad.la
libgimpprint.1.0.3.dylib
libgimpprint.1.0.4.dylib
libgimpprint.1.1.0.dylib
libgimpprint.1.dylib
libgimpprint.a
libgimpprint.dylib
libgimpprint.la
libmp3lame.a
libmp3lame.la
libogg.0.2.0.dylib
libogg.0.dylib
libogg.a
libogg.dylib
libogg.la
libpng.2.1.0.12.dylib
libpng.2.dylib
libpng.3.1.2.1.dylib
libpng.3.dylib
libpng.a
libvorbis.0.0.1.dylib
libvorbis.0.dylib
libvorbis.a
libvorbis.dylib
libvorbis.la
libvorbisenc.0.0.1.dylib
libvorbisenc.0.dylib
libvorbisenc.a
libvorbisenc.dylib
libvorbisenc.la
libvorbisfile.0.1.0.dylib
libvorbisfile.0.dylib
libvorbisfile.a
libvorbisfile.dylib
libvorbisfile.la

[JLL]

Originally posted by siliconwafer:
Most stuff seems to work, but I'm definitely not going to reboot ...

Why? There aren't any system files in /usr/local

[piracy]

The OS does not use /usr/local. By definition, /usr/local is a place where users install things local to that particular system. You have not damaged any part of Mac OS X itself, but you may have removed parts of other UNIX software that you may have installed (non-fink; fink stores everything in /sw). So you can reboot, etc., and do whatever you need to, and you don't need to reinstall OS X, but you may find that some of your third party UNIX software is broken. It would be good to check that anything that currently exists in /usr/local/bin still works. Other items in /usr/local are most likely the only affected items. There could be others, but since from your post it's evident that you didn't really understand what /usr/local was for, and the further fact that you rm -rf'ed it, I'm going to wager you are not using local libs for anything else.

[siliconwafer]

Originally posted by piracy:
There could be others, but since from your post it's evident that you didn't really understand what /usr/local was for, and the further fact that you rm -rf'ed it, I'm going to wager you are not using local libs for anything else.

Aha, thank you. You are correct, I really did not have any idea of what /usr/local is for ... I had a hunch that it was only for software installed locally on the system, but wasn't 100% sure if OS X itself had files in that location. I did reboot a bit ago and there were no problems. I'll have to reinstall vim and a few other apps, but everything else seems to be fine. Thanks for your help

[wataru]

bx
libmenu.dylib
libpanel.a
libcurses.dylib
libmenu.dylib.5
libpanel.dylib
libform.a
libmenu.dylib.5.2
libpanel.dylib.5
libform.dylib
libncurses.a
libpanel.dylib.5.2
libform.dylib.5
libncurses.dylib
terminfo
libform.dylib.5.2
libncurses.dylib.5
libmenu.a
libncurses.dylib.5.2

This is what I have in /usr/local/lib. The only UNIX stuff I have installed is ncurses and BitchX.

[OpenStep]

/usr/local is empty for me and /usr/local/lib doesn't exsist so I am assuming you aren't missing anything importaant.

[DeathMan]

you might consider aliasing that command to something like "mv /tmp" would be safer.

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