On 22 Aug 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated
about
freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 229, Issue 13:
Hi,
Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm instead of
vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups (2-3) was created
earlier. No backup, of course.
you
Just an addition:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:14:39 +0200, DA Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you want to do
man rcs
and start using RCS to track changes to your important system files.
That way, if you delete one you can just check it out of the RCS
store. 'backups with history'
You can use
Hi,
Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm instead of
vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups (2-3) was created
earlier. No backup, of course.
I believe the file system is still correct, it uses group IDs instead of names
(?). Though ls does not show
On Aug 21, 2008, at 9:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any better way of rebuilding /etc/groups than guessing and
manually adding one-by-one.
Can I somehow list all group IDs used by the file system?
You should start with /usr/src/etc/group, which is the original
version of the
I would start by comparing the contents of /usr/ports/GIDs with the ports
you have installed (as listed in /var/db/pkg). You can get a stock group
file from src/etc/group. Reinstalling ports will recreate the groups they
use (though you could do most of it manually), and you may be on your own
John Nielsen wrote:
I would start by comparing the contents of /usr/ports/GIDs with the ports
you have installed (as listed in /var/db/pkg). You can get a stock group
file from src/etc/group. Reinstalling ports will recreate the groups they
use (though you could do most of it manually), and
On 21 aug 2008, at 18:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm
instead of vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups
(2-3) was created earlier. No backup, of course.
I believe the file system is still correct, it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I have managed to remove /etc/groups (rm
instead of vi, was already sleepying). Luckily only a few groups
(2-3) was created earlier. No backup, of course.
Yes, there is a backup. Restore from /var/backups/group.bak.
Best regards
Oliver
Great help from all of you! Thank you, Balazs
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:43:06 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /etc/groups gone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday night at 1 a.m. I
