How to clear userland?

[Graham North]

Hi Erik - thank you again.   I will explore.
Cheers,  Graham/


Erik Norgaard wrote:

> Graham North wrote:
>
>> mtree eh?   I had to man that one... and I will obviously have to 
>> read it again - properly.   Any chance of asking for a bit of 
>> perspective on the command from you?   If not, no big deal I will do 
>> a bit some background reading.
>
>
> you do something like this to rebuild the directory structure of  
> /usr/local:
>
>   mtree -U -f /etc/mtree/bsd.local.dist -p /usr
>
> Two things to note: I'm on 6.0, you may have a different -f argument. 
> I don't if the -p argument should be /usr/local, I don't think so. 
> Anyway, you can test and see what happens using -p /tmp that should 
> create something in /tmp that you can then just delete.
>
> I know on 6.x that mtree is run on 'make installworld' to update the 
> directory base tree, but I'm not sure if it is run for /usr/local and 
> /usr/X11R6 since these are not part of base. For 4.x I don't remember.
>
> Cheers, Erik


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Kindness can be infectious - try it.

Graham North
Vancouver, BC
www.soleado.ca


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