Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:22:16 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Dutch Collins' <dutch@charm.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: A sys admin Q - and misc 3.2-R Q's Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105AC9@site2s1>
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See below. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dutch Collins [SMTP:dutch@charm.net] > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 12:30 AM > To: bsd-questions > Subject: A sys admin Q - and misc 3.2-R Q's > > Hardware: 486-100mhz, 1gig IDE pri master-1/2 win 1/2 bsd, > 44meg pri slave, 4x CD secondary master > 3" floppy, 5" floppy > diamond speedstar 64 2000 - 1meg (for now) video > zoom fax/modem 56k, serial mouse, 101 keyboard > no sound (don't like noisy computers) > America Megatrends ROM (never a problem, yet) > > There, just a plain 'ol computer. It is not used for anything > important, the IDE drive wd0s2 is a little flaky, so it is used for > "what happens it I do this" kind of stuff. When I say IDE is a little > flaky I mean the drive has bad sectors, the interface is 100%. > > Here is the odd thing that happened: win95 and bsd and the MB ROM > forgot the other drive, wd1 (all dos = D:) after I did a reboot from > root. I think forgetfulness could be related to me crashing X-KDE > while SU. I have been rebooting out of bsd to win95 and back again > a few times. No reason except there is a win program I like to use. > > SO: > Cold started and went into the MB ROM. Tried the 'auto detect' > option - no drive. Ok, manual edit time - that worked, the MB ROM took > the drive spec.. Start continues and guess what, win95 starts building > a new hardware database and makes the drive E:, and the CDROM D:. > I don't care the drive is ok. I have filed this under - "weird stuff" > and can't reproduce it. End of essay. If it sounds like something that > has happened to someone cool, if not; maybe I can reproduce it. > No idea at all, strangeness.. I'm willing to bet of the partition tables is fubar'd. > Now the sysadmin question that is the real reason I am using > bandwidth. > > 1) If I delete /var/log/wtmp and create an empty file of same name, > will login get real mad? The same for the other login & logout > log files. > Nah.. that's what the monthly script does anyway. Just make sure you put the empty file there. > 2) Why when running X86-KDE can I not alt-F1 to ttyv0 even if my group > is 'user', not root on say, ttyv1? A thought is, that's life, plug > in a serial terminal and make that 'console' > ALT-F? doesn't work when in X. You need to do SHIFT-ALT-F?. (or is it CTRL-ALT-F?, it's one of the two.) Don't ask me to explain why, but you do have to add the extra keystroke. > thanks, sorry about the rant, but weird can be funny. > -d > > -- > | Voice Line: 410.922.5805 | > +------------------------------------------------------+ > Hope this helps. -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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