folks. I've just wrong gzip my /etc/ folder on Ubuntu 10.10 (It's my home Internet server). So, the wrong command to gzip have changed the original files in /etc/ folder with .gz ones.
The server doesn't start now.
Then I've booted from disk with Ubuntu live and tried to extract files in /etc/:
gunzip -r *.* /etc/
But I've got a problem for some files:
file.gz too many levels of symbolic links
Any suggestions? (I need to extract all the files with the replacing to restore my system)
Look at the manual pages for gzip (man gzip), or read the output of this command:
gzip --help | less
Perhaps, you should try
gzip -d --force * /etc
I hope that this helps you.