From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 22:23:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA19862 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA19832 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA02538; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:23:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:23:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Nick Johnson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yikes! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Nick Johnson wrote: > Something went badly wrong during a power failure today, and when I boot > up now, I get a whole list of things that are not found, including things > like compressnet, daytime, chargen, etc. I suspect a file or two have > gotten destroyed because of the outage, but I have no idea what file(s) > to acquire and replace. I am able to use the system because it > eventually stops at an ftp> prompt, which I can shell escape from. Ugly. Looks like your inetd.conf and rc files got crosslinked. Better pull out that backup :( > Also- is there a way to get a log of the last bootup? You can look at the kernel messages with dmesg; or you can scroll back by pressing the SCROLL LOCK key and arrowing up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major