On a more humourous note, how many people on this list would admit to 
doing rm -rf .* ???

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:57:58 +0100 (BST)
From: Simon Baker <simonb@arien.ukerna.ac.uk>
To: Robert Schmid <robert@ancept.com>
Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Oh My... /etc is GONE! 

Here's a thought.  It's quite unusual that it would just 'entirely' 
disappear, so why not do a find for, say inetd.conf.  That should sort 
you out....or so I'd hope ;()

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Herb Peyerl wrote:

> Robert Schmid <robert@ancept.com>  wrote:
>  > I was trying to install a package using pkg_add when I realized I was in
>  > /etc instead of /.  So I CTRL-C out and switched to /.  Suddenly /etc was
>  > gone.  Someone please tell me this was a disk error that will be magically
>  > fixed on reboot somehow.
>  > 
>  > If not - how did I do this?  Is there anyway to recover without
>  > reinstalling a new /etc directory?
> 
> beats me 'what happened' but /var/backups is your friend.
> 
>