From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 16:56:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 440DA37B7C4 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17370; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:56:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: "Justin C. Sherrill" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deleted /var contents In-Reply-To: <009201bfe6b8$16d51ee0$7f01a8c0@rochester.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message