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Date:      Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:02:23 +0100
From:      David Kreil <kreil@ebi.ac.uk>
To:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to recover/reinitialize a trashed /var partition? 
Message-ID:  <200407290202.i6T22NX08498@puffin.ebi.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:19:11 CDT." <20040729011911.GA59212@brandon.dvalentine.com> 

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Dear Brandon D Valentine,

Thank you for your helpful comments.

> You may have to touch/chown/chmod a few files here and there to make
> sure the appropriate users have permissions to write to/from them.  See
> /usr/src/etc/Makefile for some more information on that.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't think there is a 'var' target in any of those
> Makefiles.

Thanks for the pointer. Yes, shame there is no such target. Considering that 
folks generally advise putting /var on a separate partition, my kind of bad 
luck must be quite common.

With best regards,

David.


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