very stupid mistake: a part of /usr is deleted

Boris Kochergin spawk at acm.poly.edu
Wed Sep 15 15:21:36 UTC 2010


Zara Kanaeva wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> vor 2 hours i made a very stupid mistake: i have deleted (as root 
> naturally) a part of /usr-directory. I have definitely deleted .snap 
> and presumably 100-150 files in /usr/bin.  If my attempt with 
> backup-restore failed, can i get the binaries, that was deleted, with 
> sysinstall/distributions/base ?
>
> uname -a ->
> FreeBSD (XXXXXX).uni-tuebingen.de 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: 
> Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009     
> root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> thanks,
Yep, the contents of /usr/bin are covered by the base distribution.

-Boris


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