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Date:      Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:23:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Nick Johnson <spatula@gulf.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Yikes!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960923222211.2093d-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960923172640.7995I-100000@pompano.pcola.gulf.net>

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On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Nick Johnson wrote:

> Something went badly wrong during a power failure today, and when I boot 
> up now, I get a whole list of things that are not found, including things 
> like compressnet, daytime, chargen, etc.  I suspect a file or two have 
> gotten destroyed because of the outage, but I have no idea what file(s) 
> to acquire and replace.  I am able to use the system because it 
> eventually stops at an ftp> prompt, which I can shell escape from.

Ugly.  Looks like your inetd.conf and rc files got crosslinked.  Better
pull out that backup :(

>   Also- is there a way to get a log of the last bootup?

You can look at the kernel messages with dmesg; or you can scroll back by
pressing the SCROLL LOCK key and arrowing up.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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