Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 02:17:26 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Bawden <Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: messing with /etc/rc.conf (continued) Message-ID: <14Jan1999.015739.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <19990110041754.A94335@scientia.demon.co.uk> (message from Ben Smithurst on Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:17:54 %2B0000) References: <8Jan1999.042549.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> <19990108192746.B63511@scientia.demon.co.uk> <9Jan1999.220116.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> <19990110041754.A94335@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ha! I'm not crazy! I'll bet it's /stand/sysinstall that edits my /etc/rc.conf: oolong:alan> strings /stand/sysinstall | grep -4 \\.previous /etc/rc.conf %s="%s"%s %s="%s" Writing configuration changes to %s file.. cp %s %s.previous network_interfaces ifconfig_ %s%s WVSh And I do recall that about a month ago I tried to use `sysinstall' to install some package or another. The handbook -says- this is supposed to work, and I was seduced by the idea of just being able to just point at a menu, but I was eventually forced to retreat to using plain old `pkg_add'. But I'll bet that's when my rc.conf got munged. OK, you guys can stop sending me mail now telling me that rc.conf is just a shell script. Thanks for your time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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