Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:02:23 +0100 From: David Kreil <kreil@ebi.ac.uk> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to recover/reinitialize a trashed /var partition? Message-ID: <200407290202.i6T22NX08498@puffin.ebi.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:19:11 CDT." <20040729011911.GA59212@brandon.dvalentine.com>
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Dear Brandon D Valentine, Thank you for your helpful comments. > You may have to touch/chown/chmod a few files here and there to make > sure the appropriate users have permissions to write to/from them. See > /usr/src/etc/Makefile for some more information on that. > > Unfortunately I don't think there is a 'var' target in any of those > Makefiles. Thanks for the pointer. Yes, shame there is no such target. Considering that folks generally advise putting /var on a separate partition, my kind of bad luck must be quite common. With best regards, David. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr David Philip Kreil ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ Research Fellow `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) University of Cambridge (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' ++44 1223 764107, fax 333992 _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dpk20 (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-'
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