How to recover after deleting the symbolic link libc.so.6?

Question

In our server the symbolic link to libc.so.6 has been deleted. Now none of the binaries in the system work. To fix this, I tried:

/bin/ln -s /li         


        

Answer 1

If you had done an ls command previously and know what the version of the libc is,

ldconfig -l -v /lib64/libc-2.x.so

where x is your version works. Note that it could be a lib64 or lib depending on your version.

I just did this and it worked.

In short, never delete the link. Bad idea.