Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:30:19 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggestions for post rm -rf /etc/* Message-ID: <20050417113019.GA16668@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050417075241.GA3880@spcrepair.com> References: <20050417075241.GA3880@spcrepair.com>
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:52:41AM -0500, Glen Smith typed: > Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after > you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh > ask me if that's what I really want to do. ::sob:: Well, asuming you don't have any backups (shame on you!) and you have the sources installed, you could do cd /usr/src/etc make distribution this will give you back all default files in /etc. Copies of your original master.passwd, aliases and group files can be found in /var/backups Ruben
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