From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 29 07:00:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 347F116A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBF743D2D for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:00:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from poisondart@optonline.net) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (ool-18ba36fb.dyn.optonline.net [24.186.54.251]) by mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I1L00NZQQ4Q2N@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:00:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:01:29 -0400 From: Jonathan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <4108A0C9.1050202@optonline.net> Organization: StreamForce Hosting Solutions MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) Subject: Major FreeBSD Problem plz help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:00:53 -0000 Hello, I messed something up in my FreeBSD-5.2.1 box. I ran sysinstall in root and installed compat4 and some other compatibility base dir thing and it extracted over / i think and now the box wont recognize my logins. I am locked out of my own box. Is there a way to reset what I did so i wont lose any data. My server is colocated at a datacenter and the techs would have to do it. Could you guys possibly explain what needs to be done so i wont lose any data and reset what i did. Any help would be greatly appreciated PoisonDart@optonline.net Regards, Jonathan