Re: dselect busted & oops, rm -r /etc
aarons@andrew.cmu.edu (Aaron Solochek) wrote:
>I got that same message, but I had thought it was due to me having
>completly screwed my life by typing rm -r /etc/ instead of rm -r etc/.
>
>I had a month old backup of /etc, and some things are broken now,
>obviously. specifically, I see complaines about modules.conf, samba, and
>lpd.conf. What should I do from here? Is there hope of rebuilding this
>stuff? can I force a bunch of packages to reinstall and install default
>config scripts. Or should I just wipe this partition and do a fresh
>installation?
apt-get --reinstall install <package>
... might be your friend here?
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Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
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