From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 5 02:31:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA13626 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 02:31:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (jonny@roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA13614 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 02:31:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA04942; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 06:31:41 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199807050931.GAA04942@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: July 2nd SNAP question. In-Reply-To: <199807050105.VAA28584@daria.cdnow.com> from "A. Karl Heller" at "Jul 4, 98 09:05:00 pm" To: heller@cdnow.com Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 06:31:40 -0300 (EST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG #define quoting(A. Karl Heller) // I recently upgraded two 9707 snap machines. Can anyone explain to me // what I did wrong that causes the system to startup with the wrong // hostname? // // This code from rc.network displays "Doing initial network setup: hostname" // // network_pass1() { // echo -n 'Doing initial network setup:' // # Set the host name if it is not already set // if [ -z "`hostname -s`" ] ; then // hostname $hostname // echo -n ' hostname' // fi // // I can't seem to figure out what is causing it to return that when // $hostname IS set. What's the problem ??? hostname should be set at /etc/rc.conf, as always. // Also, who do I talk to about making some changes to the sysinstall program? Here ? :) // For example, doing an upgrade it is possible to want to re-select // the packages you want to install. However, you are always forced to the // partition program if you already picked an install package and then exited // out to the main menu to start over. Did you try the Configuration/Packages submenu ? I think you have completed the installation and hit yes when asked for more configuration. // One last thing, does anyone have any helpfull tools for those of us who // upgrade? I might start writing some of my own to merge /etc/upgrade in // to the system, etc.. My personal opinion is that EVERY program/system that offers an upgrade option is flawed. They never work perfectly. With this in mind, I've never tried an upgrade with FreeBSD. I always backup everything, do a fresh install, and copy configuration files afterwards. // When do the current ports get upgraded? I was very surprised to see // the ports on the July 2nd SNAP had the new version of qpopper...this // is automated isn't it? if not... congrats on a great job. The ports subsystem follows -stable, and is always relatively updated. If you liked that, you may like cvsup updates. Take a look in the handbook. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and Unix. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message