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Bar
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 Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 9:08 pm Post subject: etc-update whoopsies *solved* |
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while messing with getting sound mixing working i decided to reemerge esound, and afterwords it said some configs needed updates. now i have already read of a few people messing up their systems with etc-update so i went into /etc and cp * /home/bar/etcbackup just incase, of course i wasnt paying attention about what files it was overriding and when i rebooted, it reboots insanely fast, everything that used to load it still says [ ok ] next to but it just flys by all of them, even eth0, so obviously some of my configs died. i copied all my files from backup back into /etc and its still not working. any ideas or need to see any config files? btw /etc/dhcpc/net-eth0.info looks fine.
EDIT: In the end all i had to do was dhcpcd eth0 and it reconfigured itself correctly (network worked right off install)
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Deathwing00
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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When I do an env-update I _never_ let it overwrite my config files. I always remove the new files, unless I'm completely sure I want the new file. The problem that you seem to have is that you backed-up only /etc's config files, but not others that are inside directories of /etc... You lost thos files!!! You have to reconfigure them again.  |
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Bar
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| good point, ill go hunt them down, thanks |
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gnoodle
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:43 am Post subject: |
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i use "tar -zcvf" and "cp -r" for my back up needs.
you might already know this, but for those who come across this and don't know, here are some of the commands i use to backup my "/etc" directory. note: these should all be done as the "root" user, in order to properly traverse all subdirectories regardless of permissions.
the following will create a gzipped tarball of the "/etc" directory:
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tar -zcvf my_etc_archive.tar.gz /etc
mv my_etc_archive.tgz /root
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the following will restore a gzipped tarball into the "/root" directory, recreating the "/etc" directory and ending up with "/root/etc"
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tar -zxvf my_etc_archive.tar.gz -C /root
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or for the really adventurous and supremely confident, you can recreate the contents of the gzipped tarball directly into the "/etc" directory...not recommended though:
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tar -zxvf my_etc_archive.tar.gz -C /
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in order to relocate a directory and all its contents including subdirectories:
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mv /root/etc/* /etc # moves everything in /root/etc into /etc
cp -r /root/etc/* /etc # copies everything in /root/etc into /etc
cp -ar /root/etc/* /etc # copies everything and preserve permissions
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i know, you could just say "cp -r /root/etc /" but the paranoid in me likes to really spell things out
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