From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 23 00:58:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA02450 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 00:58:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA02444 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 00:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA07876; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:27:20 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707230757.RAA07876@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf In-Reply-To: from FreeBSD Technical Reader at "Jul 23, 97 00:17:49 am" To: kernel@acromail.ml.org (FreeBSD Technical Reader) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:27:20 +0930 (CST) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, haplo@ibm.net, mlghome@home.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk FreeBSD Technical Reader stands accused of saying: > > > Has anyone noticed there rc.conf file mysteriously getting bigger after > doing cvsups to stable. Seems that I have a 600k file and comments are > being tagged onto the ends of the lines to form _very_ long lines, it > still works though. Sounds like you may have hit a bogon in sysinstall; do you use it to change /etc/rc.conf on a regular basis? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[