RA> I believed wrongly that etc was not updated and made the stupid
RA> mistake of downloading manually and unpack etc set in / without
RA> using etcupdate. I made some steps over the ssh console to fix the
RA> situation.
In case you are not aware of it yet:
By default, the nightly NetBSD housing-keeping cronjob keeps
revision-controlled backups of all /etc files. (Also root's shell
profiles incl. ~root/.ssh/, and a little bit more.) /var/backups
has all these files.
This makes it easy to recover all your /etc files. The ".current"
files will probably already reflect your erroneous /etc download
but the RCS commands allow you to review and get any older revisions,
say, "from last Thursday".
SEE ALSO:
apropos -l rcs, in particular rlog(1), rcsdiff(1), co(1)
Too bad we lost
An Introduction to the Revision Control System PSD:13
RCS is a user-contributed tool for working together
with other people without stepping on each other's
toes. An alternative to sccs for controlling software
changes.
from /usr/share/doc/psd/ -- find a PDF copy here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/tichy-paper.pdf
Martin Neitzel
