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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:34:19 -0400
From:      "Justin C. Sherrill" <jsherri1@rochester.rr.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: deleted /var contents
Message-ID:  <000001bfe74e$e37c4220$7f01a8c0@rochester.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007051655440.17259-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com>

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> 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.

That did the trick!  Thanks.

Some recent items like MySQL are still missing material (and I'm missing
the package info to remove/reinstall.)  Am I going to have to start from
scratch on package info?




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