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?
To find what's borked: rpm -Va
In some cases you might get satisfactory files from another box; in others you might need to
rpm --upgrade --replacefiles --replacepkgs <borked-package>
To find my mistakes:-) man rpm
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Cheers John
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