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Date:      Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:28:44 +0700
From:      Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
To:        "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to restore 'getty'
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20020930162844.0084bda0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <200209300844.g8U8isa19129@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
References:  <3.0.6.32.20020930145020.00840c90@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <20020930061310.GW77771@vectors.cx>

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At 11:43 AM 9/30/02 +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
>Hello!
>
>> I've been searching the google group without finding anything on this
>> subject. I must be using the wrong keywords, because I remember (vaguely)
>> seeing someone post a year or so ago how to restore something in usr.bin or
>> usr.sbin. Well, I'll keep on trying.
>
>Section 21.4.14 of the handbook has this advice:
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>If things went slightly wrong, it is easy to rebuild a particular piece
>of the system. For example, if you accidentally deleted /etc/magic  as
>part of the upgrade or merge of /etc, the file(1) command will stop
>working. In this case, the fix would be to run:
>
>    # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/file
>    # make all install
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I've lost the beginning of this thread, so I apologize if this is what 
>you already tried.
>--
>Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
>* I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
>
>

Ah, now I remember reading that 'way back when I first took the plunge into
building world, and I had completely forgotten it. The key word looks to be
'all'! I missed that. Thank you.
-- 
Roger


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