Fwd: Package database

2013-09-05 Thread Jim Ballantine
Sorry these didn't get to the list. gmail responses only to sender and not cc, it also seems to top post. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jim Ballantine Date: Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:09 PM Subject: Re: Package database To: Freddie Cash I looked in /var/db and there is not dir/file

Re: Fwd: Package database

2013-09-06 Thread Ronald Klop
Than I'll top-post too. Anyway. Try this: $ ls -al /var/backups/ total 16417 drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 10 Sep 6 03:03 ./ drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 25 Sep 5 14:42 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1688 Dec 6 2012 aliases.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1665 Aug 4 2011 alias

Re: Fwd: Package database

2013-09-06 Thread Jim Ballantine
The backup in /var/backups was a copy of the current DB, so it was not usable, however there was/is and older backup that was not corrupt. So I restored it into /var/db and then update that one. Jim On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: > Than I'll top-post too. Anyway. Try this: