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Subject: Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?
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>
> The mistake:
> /usr/local/# rm -f *
> note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found
> in /usr/local/bin or something.
>
> What I did was to start over, reinstall from scratch.
> my question, was there an easier way?

yes.

do

rm -rf /var/db/ports

and then install all needed ports, as base system was untouched