From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 5 12:17:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFEF37B408 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.247.136.241.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.136.241]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14673; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f95JGJk01129; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:16:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:16:14 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: How To Recreate /var Files? Message-ID: <20011005121614.D310@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A10E@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A10E@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>; from drew@mykitchentable.net on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:42:45AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message