On 29/4/23 08:25, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I am 72 and have forgotten a few things. I looked up debian/var and
was told I could delete /var/log/
and /var/tmp/ and /var/cores/. I left cores alone and deleted the
other two. Now I cannot burn a backup, download files and even go to
web sites from my nord vpn which was working great until I deleted the
above files. I really want to upgrade to debian 11. I am using debian
10, on a Lonovo all in one and have had no problems. I followed the
directions for var that I found and now have a screwed up machine. Is
there any help available. I was thinking of upgrading online but don't
want to loose my data. Please help this old lady.
Deleting /var/log etc is at best unhelpful.
I can't think of any procedure that would require deleting those
directories. Perhaps someone was fooling with you?
Without knowing what else you have done or why, it's probably a good
idea to recreate the directories
cd /var
mkdir log
mkdir tmp
Before you do a reboot, perhaps explain what else you have done and why?
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Jeremy
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