From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 19: 1: 8 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 CE9CD14D38 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:00:58 -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) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 11hNpA-00012S-00; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 03:00:56 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA15907 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 03:00:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 03:00:55 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: recovering /var 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 Well, i have no idea how to rebuild the package info. VI won't work because it can't access the vi backupfile in vi mysql can't find some database when init runs, but it doesn't break anything. I'm sure there are other things i haven't run across yet I just copied the one from the live filesystem, but i know that's a hack job fix. -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message