Hi I was trying to optimize the bootscripts a bit but now I accidentally ended up with an empty checkroot.sh and bootmisc.sh . How can I get those back?
I'm using debian testing.

You'd restore them from your backups or better yet just copy back in the copy of the original you made right before doing the changes.

Sorry - just a good lesson - anytime I'm editing a key file I always do something like:

cp -p filename filename.CCYYMMDD

where CCYYMMDD are century,year,month,day (e.g. 20060111).

Not only does it give me a fall back with the same ownerships and permissions as the original it also lets me know when looking later when the file was changed (from the suffix) and when the prior change to that was (from the true date stamp in ls).

Presumably you don't have backups or copies. If you post which distro and version someone (even me) may be able to post copies for you to use if we have the same.

Yea lesson learned, but I'm probably not going to make a backup next time either .

As I said previously, I'm using debian testing. Otherwhise called etch. It's up to date.

apt-get install --reinstall initscripts

Already tried that and it doesn't give me new scripts :s

Well then download the initscripts package to say /tmp or if already in your cache copy to then dpkg -x initscripts-???.deb and copy the files over.

heh ye, thx for the suggestion, I already did that and it's working again

I'm wasting time on trying to save just a little bit of boot time