From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 18:32:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71BD037B409 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:32:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sobek.lan ([62.252.8.40]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010918013243.DFXW23687.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan>; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:32:43 +0100 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.5/8.11.5) id f8I1Wfa00818; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:32:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to greid@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 02:32:41 +0100 From: George Reid To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: help! i "rm -rf /usr/local/share" Message-ID: <20010918023241.A681@FreeBSD.org> References: <20010917203708.55a2438b.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010917203708.55a2438b.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>; from mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:37:08PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:37:08PM -0400, Nathan Mace wrote: [ BROKEN FORMATTING FIXED ] > help! i just did a "rm -rf /usr/local/share" as root!! it was an accident, > i was cycling back though commands i had typed in and wasn't paying > attention. i hit control-c ASAP and i have no idea of how to tell what > got deleted! the buildworld-install world doesn't reinstall over the > /usr directory does it? what can i do? thanks Restore from your last backup, of course. You *do* keep backups, don't you? No? Oh, dear... -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message