Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:16:14 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: How To Recreate /var Files? Message-ID: <20011005121614.D310@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A10E@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>; from drew@mykitchentable.net on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:42:45AM -0700 References: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A10E@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:42:45AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I posted a message to Questions and received the response below which
> resolved half of the problem. I *can* reinstall FBSD without much pain as
> it was a (mostly) fresh install before I ruined it. But I would *really*
> like to learn how to fix this as opposed to starting over.
>
> I believe there is some part of the install process that creates the default
> files. What is it and can I run just that part? I thank you for your time!
Run mergemaster(8) and look at the contents of the var/ it creates
under its temproot. Make sure that any log files that you may have
added to your syslog.conf(5) are touched.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
cjclark@jhu.edu
cjc@freebsd.org
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