[SLL] /etc overwritten; is there any hope?

[Jay Scherrer]

Francois Caen wrote:
> On 6/29/07, William Kreuter <billyk at drizzle.com> wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone who's written.  Most think that I
>> should do a fresh reinstall.  Damn shame, but time to
>> get started.
>
> You've done a lot of tweaks of the config, right?
> How about saving the .bash_history of the user(s) you did the tweaking 
> as?
> Then, after you reload, just use it as breadcrumbs as you retrace your 
> path.
>
If your thinking of a fresh install, are thinking fresh install of just 
/etc? Or do you think that you would need a complete OS install?
You must have a log of any file/directory changes?

Jay Scherrer