From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 6 8:38:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786DC1524F for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 08:37:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mmercer@ipass.net) Received: from ipass.net (ts9-124-ppp.ipass.net [208.209.104.124]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA11424; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 11:37:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36E15A53.A05F6772@ipass.net> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 11:39:47 -0500 From: "Michael E. Mercer" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: Dennis Ostrovsky , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARGH! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey people, Make sure your sources are up to date. then go to /usr/src/usr.bin/ type make make sure everything compiles ok. then type make install. Now to be safe, if your current stuff is way older than what the current sources are, you might want to think about make world from /usr/src Well if I am wrong in this suggestion ,anyone?, please let me know. later Michael Mercer mmercer@ipass.net Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > you may cvsup the usr.bin and then issue (I guess) > make all install > or if you are using RELEASE instead of STABLE version... > you may use /stand/sysinstall utility and select `configure` > and from there `distributions` there you may install the sources > of usr.bin and then issue the command > make all install > but instead > I think you may use the upgrade option in /stand/sysinstall > and upgrade to the same version that you are using, though > it would not be an upgrade but it would install all the binaries > again over old ones so you will have a fresh system. > well another solution might be installing the same version > FreeBSD to an empty disk and getting the lost files from the > new installed disk by ftp and put to the same places with > same user.owner ids and mode... > > I hope these would help you > you may reply for additional information... > > Evren > > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Dennis Ostrovsky wrote: > > > I did something by accident which was incredibly stupid. I executed rm -r > > /usr for about 2-3 seconds. Now various randomn things in /usr/bin (the > > directory it went to first I think) are missing. Is there a way to rebuild > > /usr/bin from the src, and if so how? > > > > Thanks, > > Dennis > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Dennis Ostrovsky ** Department of Chemistry ** Yale University > > > > E-mail: den@master.chem.yale.edu WWW: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~do33 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message