Hi Ruben On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:52:41AM -0500, Glen Smith typed: > > Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after > > you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh > > ask me if that's what I really want to do. ::sob:: > > Well, asuming you don't have any backups (shame on you!) and you have the > sources installed, you could do > > cd /usr/src/etc > make distribution > > this will give you back all default files in /etc. Copies of your > original master.passwd, aliases and group files can be found in > /var/backups > > Ruben How I love FreeBSD more and more. Thanks alot. This really helped. Oh yeah, shame on me. Sincerely, Glen Smith -- IT/Network Administrator Smith's PC Repair & Consulting http://www.spcrepair.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"