From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 12:16:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA26602 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homer28.u.washington.edu (durang@homer28.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA26586 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by homer28.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.04/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA100990; Tue, 16 Jul 96 12:16:07 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:16:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: nologin file, lpr daemon, etc. Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I finally figured it out myself. I did a sort of jury-rig, or a "hack" I guess is what you would call it. I am dying to know a more elegant way to make it work. I think the problem is the result of the rc trying to mount my CD-ROM. It would be nice if it were possible, but that is not my immediate concern. It is an ATAPI CD-ROM, and I assume I will have to make kernel changes to support it. For now, I would be happy deleting a device file or whatever to keep the rc from hitting the cd9660 error. The problem was in my /etc/rc file: mount -a -t nonfs This would produce an error message: cd9660: -o auto: option not supported filesystem mount failed, startup aborted. The line following the error message in the rc file was: exit 1 So my fix was changing it to: echo "let's press on anyway!" Thanks for the help. Keep in mind that I have almost no experience with Unix, and I just figured out what the rc file is this morning. If someone knows of a good book that might say something like, "The /etc/rc file is anologous to DOS's autoexec.bat file.", please let me know! Ken Marsh durang@u.washington.edu