During upgrading between 4.1 and 4.2 I accidentally typed rm -rf /etc instead of rm -rf etc in the /tmp directory.
After fixing couple of vital things I continued normally with the upgrade, unpacking the etc42.tgz and xetc42.tgz and reinstalling couple of programs so that their /etc/ files are regenerated. I also did the post-installation stuff from the "Installing 4.2" chapters. I got an idea that I could run the install process and somehow skip the initial part but it always told me it's going to destroy all data on the disk and then I said no and it returned into the shell. Is there some way how I can re-generate the missing /etc files? I guess the permissions matter for security and some files are probably machine generated. I don't see any problem at the moment but maybe it's just like a time bomb there? CL<
