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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:50:03 +0100
From:      Nino Dehne <dehne@tcm.yi.org>
To:        Jim Freeze <jfn@cypress.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help: blew away /etc/mail
Message-ID:  <3C9F7F6B.6020501@tcm.yi.org>
References:  <3C9F1E41.3B9C775A@cypress.com>

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Hi Jim,

Jim Freeze wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Through a freak (and horrible) accident, I had my /etc/mail removed.
> (Nor could I recover a backup.) I tried to install sendmail through
> ports, but it does not rebuild /etc/mail.
> 
> Can someone tell me how I would go about getting sendmail 
> back to its original state? Could the simplest route possibly
> be to do a build world?

try:

mkdir /var/tmp/foo
cd /usr/src/etc/
make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/foo distrib-dirs distribution

and pick mail/ from /var/tmp/foo/etc/


> Thanks
> 
> Jim

Nino


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