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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:26:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Charlie Schluting <charlie@schluting.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help! 5.1 doesn't do the rc thing?
Message-ID:  <20030807192323.A84204@cheshire.cat.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030807185734.GA25658@guylian.urgle.com>
References:  <20030806205057.V4316@cheshire.cat.pdx.edu> <200308072012.57140.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <20030807185734.GA25658@guylian.urgle.com>

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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Mike Bristow wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:49:00AM -0700, Charlie Schluting wrote:
> > Yes, of course :)
> > That's why I'm perplexed. I let it install the files it wanted to,
> > except for obvious things I didn't want overwritten: passwd file,
> > sendmail config, etc.
> >
> > Just to verify: my old rc.conf should be read (and honored) right?
>
> Yes.  But it may contain bogosity; what does ". /etc/rc.conf" do?
> What's in /etc/rc.conf?


Ok, I found that /etc/rc.d/netif was missing. I moved the one from
/usr/src/etc/rc.d into place, and I'm thinking that will fix it.

I don't remember telling it NOT to move this file in mergemaster...

Thanks to everyone who responded.

--Charlie



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