Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:37:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rob Misiak" <rdm@ic.net> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: system crash - help! Message-ID: <199510050337.XAA02570@port13.hubbard2.t.ic.net> In-Reply-To: <199510031806.LAA01509@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 3, 95 11:06:50 am
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Terry Lambert ("Re: system crash - help!") wrote:
>
> > Ok, in case anyone is interested, I fixed the problem. What happened is
> > fsck (I think that's what did this) marked some files - including /etc/ttys
> > (causing the login problem) and /etc/hosts - character devices. I luckily
> > had the 2.0.5-release CD lying around, so I replaced all of the messed up
> > files
>
> What do you mean "marked"... you mean "moved to lost+found"? I hope?
>
>
Unfortunately, no. The files were in the same places that they normally were,
except (according to ls -l) they were character devices. It happened to many
random files all over the / partition. Fortunately, I kept backups and I was
able to restore the files.
Rob
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