From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 01:22:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA26919 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:22:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA26885 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA24929; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:21:29 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA12372; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:21:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id KAA02470; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:17:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610240817.KAA02470@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:17:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Callaghan at "Oct 24, 96 11:40:47 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > I had a crash which removed /kernel and turned /etc into a file. Made fsdb(8) from the fixit floppy is your friend. (Ah, well, i hope it's there at all... ;-) You could have turned /etc back into a directory with it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)