From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 07:14:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 675FC1065712 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:14:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from a.mail.ru.ac.za (a.mail.ru.ac.za [IPv6:2001:4200:1010::25:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0238FC13 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:14:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.249]:55384) by a.mail.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KWQr2-000HNz-Ad; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:14:42 +0200 Received: from iwr61.iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.161]) by iwr.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KWQr2-000L13-6x; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:14:40 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" Organization: IWR To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:14:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <48AE837F.11627.4B44788@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20080822064429.0C4B11065764@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20080822064429.0C4B11065764@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: a.mail.ru.ac.za (146.231.129.33) Cc: sbremal@hotmail.com Subject: Re: /etc/groups gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:14:51 -0000 On 22 Aug 2008 , freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 229, Issue 13": > Hi, > > Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm instead of > vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups (2-3) was created > earlier. No backup, "of course". you want to do man rcs and start using RCS to track changes to your important system files. That way, if you delete one you can just check it out of the RCS store. 'backups with history' -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/