From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 12:42: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.brwn.org (intgw1.brwn.org [196.28.127.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4759237BBDC for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willem@snoopy.brwn.org) Received: by snoopy.brwn.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6F73B1D95; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 21:41:56 +0200 (SAST) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 21:41:56 +0200 From: Willem Brown To: "Justin C. Sherrill" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deleted /var contents Message-ID: <20000705214156.I28124@snoopy.brwn.org> References: <009201bfe6b8$16d51ee0$7f01a8c0@rochester.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <009201bfe6b8$16d51ee0$7f01a8c0@rochester.rr.com>; from jsherri1@rochester.rr.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 03:34:52PM -0400 X-Public-Key: http://willem.brwn.org/pubkey.txt X-Chat-Server: http://chat.brwn.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, If you have got access to the distribution, you can maybe do this. cd /cdrom/bin cat bin.?? | tar tzvf - var/ You might to check some of the others as well. (info, dict, doc, compat* etc.) Since it is trashed, maybe extract the ones from the archives. Regards Willem Brown On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 03:34:52PM -0400, 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? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ Indecision is the basis for flexibility. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message