On Monday 02 May 2005 08:03 pm, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Folks, > > As the subject line says - I somehow blew away > Aa-lL* in the /etc directory but recovered everything > I could from the backup tapes but unfortunately the > permissions and/or some files are corrupted or missing > from the latest installs AFTER by last backup -- I lost > the X11 and KDE but was able to recover X11 (somewhat) > and moving onto KDE -- but what I really want is to force > reinstall everything that is needed and is current. > > I tried: up2date -f -u and that does not work -- says > everything is "up to date" and does not bother to check. > > I tried: up2date -f -i -- same thing. > > So -- how do I force up2date to reinstall or recheck > all of the files in /etc or at least reinstall everything > including the updates? > > Thanks! > Dan Unfortunately up2date, yum, ET AL keep their config files in /etc. If you are fortunate you may many find rpm files in /var/cache/yum/*/packages. If not you will probably need to reload the system using cdroms. You could try reloading/installing without formatting partitions. This should hopefully retain all data not lost. -- John H Ludwig Common sense is so rare, why do they call it common!!!
