From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 14 23:37:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10819 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (b+fpCOIuZfXFR/Iip0yXrzFl52G/ThUE@link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10690 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:37:17 GMT (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (8.8.8+3.0Wbeta13/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA01805; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:36:32 +0200 (SAT) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:36:31 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Ted Spradley cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Losing hostname after power-loss In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Ted Spradley wrote: >You mean one line was deleted from the file? Did the file creation date >mean anything to you? The line wasn't deleted, but the contents of the hostname (ie the bit between the " ") was deleted. The creation date was when I switched the machine back on. >This happened to me recently (scary) but it turned out that rc.conf was >completely missing. I keep mine in RCS, and I apparently forget the -u >option the last time I checked it in. Recovery was easy once I figured >out *why* it didn't know its own name. Hmmm, ok. --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) khetan@iafrica.com (w); khetan@os.org.za (h) http://www.os.org.za/~khetan | Finger: khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za UUNET Internet Africa Support | FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org A computer without Microsoft and Intel is like chocolate cake without tomato sauce and mustard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message