Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:39:00 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: need help figuring out what I broke Message-ID: <3C92A234.3000704@mac.com>
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I have a 4.4-STABLE system that I somehow managed to break in some subtle way. I boneheaded removed some files in /var/log (simple fatfingering) and they didn't re-appear (messages, et al) as I thought they would. Worse still, the box just stopped doing its job: it serves as my router/gateway for my home network and it just stopped passing packets. I thought perhaps my DHCP lease had expired and I was having trouble getting a new one, but uping and downing the external interface had no effect. Finally, a reboot (goodbye 95 days of uptime <snif>) and all is again well, except those missing files are still missing. I thought the kernel did some logging as so other apps (sudo, for example). Also, wtmp(5) was gone and my last login was shown as Dec 31, 1969 at GMT -8: I may be older than UNIX but I wasn't logging in at that tender age. I touched wtmpx and last(1) seems to work now. Any clues as to what I did and how to fix it? -- Paul Beard 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 206 529 8400 Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human kind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can. -- Oliver Goldsmith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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