On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Martin Alge wrote:

> Hi,
> unfortunately I deleted the /var directory by adding a new
> drive to my
> Red Hat Server.
> I have no back up.
> Does the system start up without the /var directory?
> How can I reinstall all the stuff that has been in the /var
> directory?
> Thank you for your help.
> Best regards
> Martin Alge
>

/var is fairly important, without a backup your best (quickest) option is
to reinstall. Then get a backup strategy of some type in place.

How did you happen to delete /var? What command did you use? I'm wondering
if you might have renamed /var rather than actually delete it (you would
have had to do something like "rm -R /var" and it would have taken some
time to complete).

Good Luck, 

Bill Carlson
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