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Date:      Sun, 6 May 2007 10:03:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Ray <ray@stilltech.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?
Message-ID:  <20070506100230.A81975@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200705051705.43504.ray@stilltech.net>
References:  <200705051705.43504.ray@stilltech.net>

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> The mistake:
> /usr/local/# rm -f *
> note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found
> in /usr/local/bin or something.
>
> What I did was to start over, reinstall from scratch.
> my question, was there an easier way?

yes.

do

rm -rf /var/db/ports

and then install all needed ports, as base system was untouched



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