[PLUG] Restore /etc

Dale Snell ddsnell at frontier.com
Sat Jun 13 19:04:55 UTC 2015


On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:31:09 -0700 (PDT), in message
alpine.LNX.2.11.1506131129420.22964 at localhost, Rich Shepard wrote:

>    Setting up a netbook and accidently removed /etc/ rather than a
> local etc/. Is there any way to restore that directory, e.g., from
> the Slackware distribution DVD, without re-installing and
> re-configuring the whole thing?
> 
> Rich

Ouch!  You don't have a backup?  I don't know of any other way to
restore just your /etc directory hierarchy.

Each package contains its own entry or entries into /etc.  So if
you lose /etc, then you'll need to re-install each of those packages.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

--Dale

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