From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 19:25:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E818814E22 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:25:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 2111 invoked from network); 30 Oct 1999 02:25:22 -0000 Received: from usercb43.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.150.210) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 1999 02:25:22 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id DAA01235; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 03:21:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 03:21:16 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Marc Schneiders Cc: J McKitrick , RCC , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP !!! I've deleted /var !!! Message-ID: <19991030032116.E317@marder-1> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 03:12:33AM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > > > OK, i copied the CDROM var to mine. WHat info needs restored? Don't i > > need to rebuild the ports/packages db? What else needs repaired? > > > > It is absolutely essential for historical reasons that you reconstruct > the following files in /var/log: > > maillog > ppp.log > > Take special care to get the older maillogs, which were gzipped before > they died, as well. > Can you elaborate as to why? I periodically rm(1) all the *.gz files in /var/log > Marc Schneiders || In re tam justa > || nulla est deliberatio! > marc@venster.nl || > marc@oldserver.demon.nl || Acta SS. MM. Scillitanorum > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message