Re: restoring /usr to pre-BFU state

[Christopher Ingram <cmi@crystalsands.net>]

This won't help you now, but when you have a known good install it might 
be worth it to burn a CD with copies of trusted binaries and checksums. 
I'd say get similar box and FTP in your binaries if you can. I'm unsure 
where they are in the distro. You may just have to copy /etc to a home 
partition or something, do a fresh install from -stable or -current, and 
restore /etc and any installed ports.

Jim wrote:

> Aargh - I've stepped into it... I've apparently overwritten many of the
> binaries in /usr with source code (untar'd src.tar in /usr). I have (had)
> 3.3 stable
> 
> I thought I could recover by untar'ing one or more of the distribution
> tarballs, but not sure which ones... and I don't want to make things worse
> (e.g. overwrite /etc).
> 
> What's my best road to recovery?
> 
> Thank You...
> Jim
> 
> 

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