From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 5: 2: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ra.upan.org (upan.org [204.107.76.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7B337B402 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 05:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ocsinternet.com (localhost.upan.org [127.0.0.1]) by ra.upan.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0I821n39457; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:02:02 GMT (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Message-ID: <3A66A2F9.DC4C969C@ocsinternet.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:02:01 +0000 From: Mikel King X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nader Turki Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/log/wtmp References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG touch /var/log/wtmp touch /var/log/messages <---this one should be created automagickly by syslog...but just incase set them both with: -rw-r--r-- permissions... cheers, mikel Nader Turki wrote: > Hi there, I accidentally deleted 2 files. /var/log/wtmp and > /var/log/messages. i was just wondering how could i get them back and > working again. Thanks, Nader > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > 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