From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 15: 7:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8742A37B417 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (ndf-dial-196-30-223-177.mweb.co.za [196.30.223.177]) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g39M5WL16925; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:05:32 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Patrick O'Reilly" Organization: Perimeter Networks CC Message-Id: <200204100008.27618@.perimeter.co.za> To: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: Root problem & Passwords Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:09:38 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Martins Struka , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002101c1dfa2$e2ea81c0$0501a8c0@Bastion> <01a001c1dfa9$9b3d08a0$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020409170956.GE67632@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020409170956.GE67632@hades.hell.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 09 Apr 02 19:09, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-04-09 11:33, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Just because I've been bitten by this a few times. Before shutting > down, run a few "sync" commands, and wait until the disks spin down. > I've changed my rc.conf a couple of times, and rebooted too fast only > to find that the changes were not there :-) > Oops - yes! You're running softupdates, no doubt :) Nice catch! Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message