From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 18:17:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3CB14CCA for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11hN94-0000i3-00; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 02:17:26 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA15189; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 02:17:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 02:17:25 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Marc Schneiders 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 I'm running this on a standalone laptop, so i didn't lose any mail. But i lost all my package info. -jm On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message