Hello Jon, I have never seen that happen on any unix platform I have worked on. The only thing that comes to mind is perhaps /var and /tmp are not mounted when the system restarted. Those partitions are mentioned in the /etc/fstab file right ?
Sorry, but that is the only thing that comes to mind after reading through the problem you are experiencing. Steve On Nov 5, 2007, at 10:23 PM, Jon Drews wrote: > On Nov 5, 2007 10:48 PM, Peter Hessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> exactly how did you copy the file over? I've done this many times >> and >> have not managed to reproduce your behavior. >> > > Hi Peter: > > 1) I have a tarball of /etc. > 2) I unpack this tarball in my user account. > 3) I log into root and cd to /etc > 4) I copy # cp /home/jon/etc/printcap /etc/printcap > 5) When I reboot the next time /var is empty except for .ice-tmp, > mc-bsd/ and another file (I do not remember the second file). > 6) /tmp also has two .ice* files. I can't remember the suffixes. > > I Also get this behavior when I do a restore of a dump that I have > made on /etc. > > I looked at the dmesg and saw nothing odd. I have reinstalled OpenBSD > 4.2 since my first e-mail > Here is my post from May 3 of 2007: > ---------------------------------------- > subject: restore damages my existing files > OpenBSD 4.1 > on i386 using GENERIC kernel > > Hi: > > I backed up /etc using the command: > # dump -f /mnt/bsd/OpenBSDEtc.dump /etc > > when I do and interactive restore like so: > # cd /root > # restore -i -f /mnt/bsd/OpenBSDEtc.dump > > I extract the files fstab, printcap, sysctl.conf and xorg.conf. I then > copy fstab and printcap to /etc and look at the old sysctl.conf and > make modifications to the new sysctl.conf. Since I have softdeps in > the new (copied) fstab, I delete the temporary etc in /root/etc and > then reboot the computer. > > Upon booting, I see messages that database files are missing. I > login and see that /var is the same as /tmp. What am I doing wrong > here? > > I have read through the backup sections in Evie Nemeth's purple book > and also the UNIX Sys Admin book by Aileen Frisch. I thought > interactive restore was pretty straightforward. Are the original > inodes being preserved? Also the man page says that there is a > temporary fi;e called "restoresymtable". I did a find / -name > "restoresymtable", before I rebooted, and nothing turned up. > > > > -- > Kind regards, > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > Openbsd-newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
