On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:02:39PM -0400, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:44:52PM -0400, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> > > I have a hdd problem and after an fdisk I am getting a bunch of rcorder
> > > errors in the /etc tree.  Is there any way to restore sanity to this from
> > > a tar'd backup?  Is there some sort of database file that keeps track of
> > > this stuff that I can restore or do I really need to reistall at this
> > > point?
> > 
> > It you have a tar file, just extract it !
> > If you don't and didn't change anything in /etc/rc.d, you can extract the
> > etc.tgz set in some tempory place and copy etc/rc.d from there.
> > 
> > 
> 
> OK, more specifically, it will not let me delete or replace the following
> in /etc/rc.d
> route6d, rwho, securelevel, sysctl, wscons, rtadvd, savcore, sendmail, or
> virecover

What does ls -lo say about these files ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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