Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:20:43 +0100 From: David Kreil <kreil@ebi.ac.uk> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to recover/reinitialize a trashed /var partition? Message-ID: <200407290120.i6T1Khd00595@puffin.ebi.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:15:07 PDT." <20040729011507.GB20909@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Dear Brooks,
Thank you very much for your fast and helpful reply.
# populate /var
/usr/sbin/mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
# add sendmail bits
/usr/sbin/mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist -p /
# create new syslog files
/usr/sbin/newsyslog -CC
# add a lastlog file
/usr/bin/touch /var/log/lastlog
> I cribbed this from /etc/rc.d/var on current.
This is fantastic, thanks!
With best regards,
David.
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