On Monday 07 May 2007 11:16 pm, Ian Smith wrote: <snip> > Ray, I've been watching this thread, and you've had some good advice > about backups etc, but if you really did 'rm -f *' in /usr/local (NOT > 'rm -rf *') then it's very likely that you deleted no files at all. <snip>
sorry, should have said rm -rf * > > The only file 'rm -f *' in /usr/local would remove here is a comment I > made for myself with 'touch moved_portsnap_from_var_db'; 'rm *' (with or > without -f) does not remove directories (unless you also use -r). > > I can't say what was in _your_ /usr/local, but I've just checked on 4.8, > 4.10, 5.5-STABLE and 6.1-RELEASE systems, and none of them install plain > files in /usr/local at all, just directories. So you may be lucky .. This was a postmortem question, by the time I'd posted, I'd already reinstalled from scratch. The machine wasn't in production yet and I had made good notes on paper, so It wasn't the end of the world. Ray > > Cheers, Ian > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
