Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

Mark Felder feld at feld.me
Thu May 31 15:15:39 UTC 2012


On Thu, 31 May 2012 09:30:31 -0500, Adam Strohl  
<adams-freebsd at ateamsystems.com> wrote:

> This brings up another point: Repair is always possible with FreeBSD.
>

Quick tip for you guys -- create your own mtree file for /usr/local,  
/usr/home, and /var via cron nightly. With that data and the ones provided  
for the base system you can fix a machine that someone accidentally "chown  
-R /" within minutes. The fact that Linux has nothing equivalent is  
frightening. Mtree has saved me a lot of time when customers have broken  
their servers.


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