From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 6:37:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout3-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout3-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6EC837C4C2 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 06:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsherri1@rochester.rr.com) Received: from justin (24-93-1-216.rochester.rr.com [24.93.1.216]) by mailout3-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA27661 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:27:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Justin C. Sherrill" To: Subject: RE: deleted /var contents Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:34:19 -0400 Message-ID: <000001bfe74e$e37c4220$7f01a8c0@rochester.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > > > While trying to expand /var, I ended up deleting everything in it. > > > > Is there a way I can reassemble a "default" /var directory? > > You can run 'mergemaster -v', then when it gets to the prompt that > tells you that you're about to start the comparison, ^C and go to > /var/tmp/temproot and you should have a /var directory that you can copy > over. That did the trick! Thanks. Some recent items like MySQL are still missing material (and I'm missing the package info to remove/reinstall.) Am I going to have to start from scratch on package info? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message