From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 09:51:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09293 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09288 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:51:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA26269; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:52:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Jacob Ritorto cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: migrating to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > Hmm, I guess this is my end-of-the-month question: Is there any good > automated way fo restore my /var filesystem? Perhaps reinstall an > original-ish /var fs image? I haven't gotten to backups yet and I just > lost all of /var (lucky, actually-- at least it wasn't /usr). I've been > hacking it back together piece by piece, but things aren't working quite > right and I'd like to just try and replace the whole thing. Anyone have a > current dump image of a virgin /var, just after a x-developer > installation? Short of that, how about a good description of what ought > to be there & details on the permission structure... Here's the /var directory structure. I can't think of any files that need to be present (doesn't mean there aren't any :) ./account ./at/jobs ./at/spool ./at ./crash ./cron/tabs ./cron ./db/pkg ./db ./log ./mail ./msgs ./preserve ./run ./rwho ./spool/lock ./spool/lpd ./spool/mqueue ./spool/output/lpd ./spool/output ./spool/uucp/.Preserve ./spool/uucp/.Sequence ./spool/uucp/.Status ./spool/uucp/.Temp ./spool/uucp/.Xqtdir ./spool/uucp ./spool/uucppublic ./spool ./tmp/vi.recover ./tmp ./yp Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message