From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 2:29:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CBE37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 02:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C98B43E6A for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 02:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA27971; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 02:27:29 -0700 (GMT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020930162844.0084bda0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> X-Sender: mcrogerm@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:28:44 +0700 To: "Toomas Aas" , questions@freebsd.org From: Roger Merritt Subject: Re: How to restore 'getty' In-Reply-To: <200209300844.g8U8isa19129@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <3.0.6.32.20020930145020.00840c90@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <20020930061310.GW77771@vectors.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:43 AM 9/30/02 +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: >Hello! > >> I've been searching the google group without finding anything on this >> subject. I must be using the wrong keywords, because I remember (vaguely) >> seeing someone post a year or so ago how to restore something in usr.bin or >> usr.sbin. Well, I'll keep on trying. > >Section 21.4.14 of the handbook has this advice: >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >If things went slightly wrong, it is easy to rebuild a particular piece >of the system. For example, if you accidentally deleted /etc/magic as >part of the upgrade or merge of /etc, the file(1) command will stop >working. In this case, the fix would be to run: > > # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/file > # make all install >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >I've lost the beginning of this thread, so I apologize if this is what >you already tried. >-- >Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ >* I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it. > > Ah, now I remember reading that 'way back when I first took the plunge into building world, and I had completely forgotten it. The key word looks to be 'all'! I missed that. Thank you. -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message