-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 August 2002 05:40 pm, Mark wrote: > On Wednesday 14 August 2002 03:48 pm, you is done writ: > <a couple of good suggestions elided> > > I liked the second suggestion best..but I lost *all* /var. That > includes all logs, rpmpackages, *everything*. > > Now, this db on RH - is it binary, or human-readable? If the latter, I > s'pose that I could edit out the stuff I know isn't there (like > X-anything), and update that.
Please change the subject line when replying to digest messages, it's hard to find what messages belong to a given thread. Because you lost all of /var, your going to have a difficult time rebuilding the database. As Hal Burgiss mentioned previously, you may have an easier time reinstalling. Backing up any custom config files and doing a new install will be much faster than trying to rebuild from scratch. If you do want to try rebuilding, I'd suggest Hal's method at this point. use rpm -ivh --justdb --force --nodeps package.rpm for each package you know was installed. That'll get you started at any rate. Download and install rpmdb-redhat-6.2-0.20000308.i386.rpm and it can help you as well. For a given file of unknown origin, you can then run: rpm -qf --dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat file_name which will querry an rpm database of all packages that were included in the initial distribution. Good luck. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1bLWwACgkQn/07WoAb/Svi5ACfT8QGVtPWXu+mx1NaQfTr6rfs BIUAn2CYBHe8gDFkWvV7t3pLCJsKx1OD =QxNJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
