Dearest Monks,
I hope someone here can help me recover a currently running script from memory.
Sometime yesterday one of my primary drives failed, on that drive was about 160 gigs of data. One of the most important things in the 160 gigs was a perl script that is run on other machines in my network via SMB. Now, I have located a single running copy of the script on one of the machines. The primary drive is on a linux system and uses ext2 with journaling. In the past I read an article detailing how to recover files from memory, but for the life of me I cannot find it now. The closest I have found is at

http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_sec/05072002/

The only thing I have been able to recover using those instructions is the perl binary itself. If anyone can offer a helping hand I sure would appreciate it, I have no idea how much longer the script will run before failing an attempting to restart.

Thank you !

20041015 Edit by ysth: add p tags, bracket link, retitle from Perl Script Recovers from memory

In reply to Recover a running perl script from memory? by Anonymous Monk

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