Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:17:42 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: "Justin C. Sherrill" <jsherri1@rochester.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, so@server.i-clue.de Subject: Re: deleted /var contents Message-ID: <20000705221742.A795@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <009401bfe6bb$b0921620$7f01a8c0@rochester.rr.com>; from jsherri1@rochester.rr.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:00:38PM -0400 References: <3963917F.9F873FC@i-clue.de> <009401bfe6bb$b0921620$7f01a8c0@rochester.rr.com>
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On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:00:38PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > > > While trying to expand /var, I ended up deleting everything in it. > > > > > > Is there a way I can reassemble a "default" /var directory? > > > > If you did make world recently, a var directory may exist somewhere in > > /usr/obj/. > > Otherwise, grab it from the live filesystem CD-ROM. > > No such luck with /usr/obj/... I installed via FTP. Is there something I > can do other than wait for the CDs to arrive in the mail? You can rebuild the directory hierarchy with, # mtree < /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist But that does not touch files you might need. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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