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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:06:17 +0900
From: Toshihiro Kanda <candy@fct.kgc.co.jp>
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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>, questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Please Help ... I am locked out of a FreeBSD machine
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> >>>>>> "Toshihiro" == Toshihiro Kanda <candy@fct.kgc.co.jp> writes:
> Toshihiro> Just a little advice.  Mtree(8) will help you recover
> Toshihiro> *only* directory hierarchy.
> 
> > BLUE RIBBON AWARD to Toshihiro Kanda for the best solution (IMHO)!
> 
> Actually, this is not necessarily true.  If you name them in the
> description, mtree(8) will happily check regular files as well.
> Indeed, the reason why I implemented the `md5sum' option a year ago
> was with the hope that someone (i.e., Jordan) would take the hint and
> add the appropriate mtree commands to the distribution builds so that
> we can have a published reference for what the MD5s of all the
> distributed files are supposed to be.

  Oops!  I'm sorry but I considered only /etc/mtree/* files in this
case.  I should have say "/etc/mtree/* files will help you ..."

candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda)