From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 18:13:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3451214C88 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:12:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=propro) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11hN4c-0001Ld-00; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 01:12:55 +0000 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 03:12:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: J McKitrick Cc: RCC , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP !!! I've deleted /var !!! In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 30 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > OK, i copied the CDROM var to mine. WHat info needs restored? Don't i > need to rebuild the ports/packages db? What else needs repaired? > It is absolutely essential for historical reasons that you reconstruct the following files in /var/log: maillog ppp.log Take special care to get the older maillogs, which were gzipped before they died, as well. Marc Schneiders || In re tam justa || nulla est deliberatio! marc@venster.nl || marc@oldserver.demon.nl || Acta SS. MM. Scillitanorum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message