From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 30 8:12:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6210914E1C for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 08:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 95908 invoked by uid 1003); 30 Oct 1999 15:15:20 -0000 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 17:15:20 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recovering /var Message-ID: <19991030171520.A93984@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat 1999-10-30 (03:00), J McKitrick wrote: > 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. # mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist This will create only the directories. (I think) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message