From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 14:02:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24228 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:02:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24137 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA16638; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:00:14 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:00:14 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Jim Mock cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Jim Mock wrote: > My question is this.. a) how do i go about replacing those files with the > originals without reinstalling, and b) I've got other machines running the > same release and I was wondering if I could copy the files from the other > box and replace the ones in question. I'm not sure if that'd work or not, > so I figured I'd ask. It'll work (been there, done that). Some files may be hard to remove - that's when I discovered yet-another-level-of-permissions ie chflags. Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message