Suggestions for post rm -rf /etc/*

[Glen Smith]

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 
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