Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:57:54 +0100 (CET) From: Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleted VAR Message-ID: <20030107184928.Y51290@slave.east.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <DAV28b3F45qHjDv4IiK00000142@hotmail.com> References: <DAV28b3F45qHjDv4IiK00000142@hotmail.com>
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Today Kenzo wrote: > Help, I accidently deleted everything in the /var dir. ( fat fingered ). > Is there a way to retrive it? or do i have to reinstall. > I'm now getting alot of error message since it's also a mail server. well > not anymore. You can restore the directory structure -- at least -- with mtree: `mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var', to make sendmail(?) happy. Don't forget to create the logfiles for syslogd. -andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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