From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 29 12:17:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC67537B402 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:17:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0TKHaA17343; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:17:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:17:35 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: C J Michaels Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting capability database back to text? Message-ID: <20020129201735.GE92289@dan.emsphone.com> References: <2477.216.153.201.63.1012335177.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2477.216.153.201.63.1012335177.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 29), C J Michaels said: > Is there any way I reverse the process of cap_mkdb and extract > login.conf from my login.conf.db? It seems I managed to overwrite my > /etc/login.conf with mergemaster several months ago, and I don't have > backups that date that far back. If you have the db3 port installed, you can use the "db3_dump185 -p" command to dump the raw databse records out. You'll have to massage it a bit to get it back into the old format, but it'll work. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message