From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 24 16:17:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA24607 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 16:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.cpl.net ([206.85.245.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA24602 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 16:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA03785; Sat, 24 May 1997 16:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 16:17:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: Kevin Eliuk cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Hope the system comes back up after messing with /dev... :) > > I do too :) Well it did. :) > Let me know if you did try the suggestion: > Try mtree(8), with the files in /etc/mtree. > > Something like > mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -U -p / > mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -U -p /usr > mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -U -p /var > mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist -U -p /usr/local Yeah I did. It seemed to work for some things, but not others.. like it changed all the standard /usr directorys to the proper owner, but didnt change anything like under /usr/bin, or any other directory. BTW, I CC'd the list, in case your mail bounces again. It was giving a unknown user error before.