Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:20:24 -0500 From: Peter Clark <clarkp@mtmary.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Livefs/fixit Message-ID: <4BF44808.8030602@mtmary.edu>
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Hello, I have a amd64 8.0-RELEASE-P2 FreeBSD box. I was building a spam/av gateway. Something has happened and there seems to be some OS corruption. I am not sure what did it but symlinks all over the system seem to be gone. Links like /home pointing at /usr/home. The data is still there in /usr/home/user_blah but the link pointing there is gone. There could be more issues that I have not discovered yet. I would like to repair the base os from the 8.0 DVD. I believe I should use the livecd/fixit method. Is this the right way to go about doing this? Are there some concise instructions for this? Will this affect the installed ports, ie. things like getting rid of all the configs in /usr/local/etc, rc.conf, passwd, /etc/groups ? I imagine I will need to reinstall all the ports like one would do after a buildworld. Any help would be appreciated. Peter
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