Re: disk problems

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/22/05 

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:10:07 -0500

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:54:39 -0400, LeopoldSA wrote:

> Hello
>
> There is my situation: I had a disk crash and after the repair I have
> found out that some directories are missing.
>
> syslogd is telling me that the following files/directories are missing
> var/log/messages
> var/log/messages
> var/log/authlog
> var/log/secure
> var/log/deamon
> var/log/xferlog
> var/loglpd-errs
> var/log/maillog
>
> Questions:
>
> Is there a way to find out the group owner, file owner and file
> permissions for those files/directories?

-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 565 Jun 21 17:38 authlog
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 956 Jun 21 02:00 authlog.0.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1253 Jun 14 02:00 authlog.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1482 Jun 7 02:00 authlog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1131 May 31 02:00 authlog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1039 May 24 02:00 authlog.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1354 May 17 02:00 authlog.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1602 May 10 02:00 authlog.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1769 May 3 02:00 authlog.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 18447 Jun 21 22:04 daemon
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3570 Jun 21 19:00 daemon.0.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 4390 Jun 21 15:00 daemon.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 4297 Jun 21 10:00 daemon.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3406 Jun 21 07:00 daemon.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 4289 Jun 20 23:00 daemon.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3581 Jun 20 18:00 daemon.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2440 Jun 21 01:30 daily.out
-rw------- 1 root wheel 304 Dec 27 10:10 failedlogin
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 19 2004 ftpd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 284348 Jun 21 09:02 lastlog
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 19 2004 lpd-errs
-rw------- 1 root wheel 343236 Jun 21 22:04 maillog
-rw------- 1 root wheel 229513 Jun 21 15:00 maillog.0.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 200168 Jun 20 15:00 maillog.1.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 169431 Jun 19 15:00 maillog.2.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 194071 Jun 18 15:00 maillog.3.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 210996 Jun 17 15:00 maillog.4.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 214168 Jun 16 15:00 maillog.5.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 220538 Jun 15 15:00 maillog.6.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 225263 Jun 14 15:00 maillog.7.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 477 Jun 21 19:00 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4753 Jun 19 22:00 messages.0.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4872 May 6 12:00 messages.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4759 Apr 7 21:00 messages.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3916 Feb 15 22:00 messages.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5157 Jan 17 16:00 messages.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5299 Dec 19 2004 messages.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 15 Jun 1 05:30 monthly.out
-rw------- 1 root wheel 21080 Jun 21 17:37 pflog
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 20 00:44 rdist
-rw------- 1 root wheel 58 Jun 15 12:00 secure
-rw------- 1 root wheel 232 Jun 15 12:00 secure.0.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 200 May 31 14:00 secure.1.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 383 May 17 11:00 secure.2.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 201 May 10 11:00 secure.3.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 237 May 3 10:00 secure.4.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 196 Apr 26 10:00 secure.5.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 200 Apr 11 17:00 secure.6.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel 210 Apr 4 17:00 secure.7.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 728 Jun 21 22:04 sendmail.st
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 59 Jun 18 03:31 weekly.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 600 Jun 21 13:10 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 421 Jun 21 04:37 wtmp.0.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 537 Jun 14 04:52 wtmp.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 603 Jun 7 04:48 wtmp.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 448 May 31 04:35 wtmp.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 495 May 24 06:05 wtmp.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 425 May 17 08:50 wtmp.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 736 May 10 08:59 wtmp.6.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 663 May 3 08:51 wtmp.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 19 2004 xferlog

> Is there a way to find out if there are any other files/directories missing?

Not really, but you could perform an upgrade.

> Is there a tree of my actual hard drive stored someplace? (i dont have a
> backup)

Some files are backed up in /var/backups.

> If I slap OpenBSD 3.5 CD in the drive will it recreate the missing
> files/directories without having to reinstall my accounts?

It is time to upgrade to 3.7; 3.5 is no longer being supported with
patches.

> Is there an option that I am not aware that would solve my problem?

DDS-2 tape drives are quite inexpensive on ebay.com.

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