Lost am I (FreeBSD4.10)

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:52:25PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:19:05PM -0500, gazwacker the kazmaster wrote:

> >>Annoyed am I. For mine computer hath been tampered upon by a fool
> >>which hath deleted mine "/usr/share" folder. I have the
> >>installation CD, now how would I re-install my purloined portfolio?
> >>(If no one knows how to do that, a copy of the "/usr/share/misc/termcap" 
> >>file would suffice)

> >Grab the system sources via cvsup, and do a 'make world' cycle as
> >described here:
> >
> >   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
> >
> >and here
> >
> >   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> >
> >That will reinstall the contents of /usr/share along with all of the
> >rest of the system -- sure, it's a sledge hammer, but it will crack
> >this nut very effectively.  Nb. you should always compile a new kernel
> >to go with the new system -- having kernel and world out of synch
> >tends to cause a number of oddities of behaviour in the system.

> Lo!  A large hammer indeed.
> 
> Might not he simply changeth to /usr/src/share (if he indeed hath
> such) and typest "make install" as root?

Possibly.  Although I have no idea whether that will actually work or
not.  Or if it will provide the complete contents of /usr/share --
better to spend some time now and be sure of the result than find
things mysteriously broken someway down the line.

Hmmm... one point I should comment on: I said to grab the system
sources by cvsup(1), but you could also just install them from the
release CD.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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