From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 4 18:06:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03012 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from socko.cdnow.com (socko.cdnow.com [209.83.166.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03007 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:06:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heller@daria.cdnow.com) Received: from daria.cdnow.com (daria.cdnow.com [209.83.166.60]) by socko.cdnow.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA18767 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 21:06:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from heller@localhost) by daria.cdnow.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28584 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 21:05:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Karl Heller" Message-Id: <199807050105.VAA28584@daria.cdnow.com> Subject: July 2nd SNAP question. To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 21:05:00 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Anybody else see this or just me? Also, who do I talk to about making some changes to the sysinstall program? 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. Also, during this procedure, as soon as you pick your packages you are put back to the initial package screen without the package number you selected highlighted. I ran in a loop here not knowing when to stop. I assumed it would remember my settings, exited the menu, and then the installation continued. Just little things here and there. 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.. Karl PS. 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. -- A. Karl Heller - Senior Systems Engineer - heller@cdnow.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys. Do something unusual today. Accomplish work on the computer. >>>>> HTTP://CDNOW.COM - BIGGEST FASTEST BEST <<<<< To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message