Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 06:47:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Hummel <hummel@www.snybuf.edu> To: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ugly /etc/rc.conf & others Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970818063718.2745A-100000@www.buffalostate.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970818180150.702A-100000@cody.usls.edu>
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This doc gives a good explantion of two of your questions: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/2.2.2R/errata.html I'm usually wrong, but your su problem could be as simple as not being in the group 'wheel'. /etc/group: wheel:*:0:root,your_user_name daemon:*:1:daemon kmem:*:2:root sys:*:3:root I don't know how to keep changes to the sysinstall options, but I'd like to. On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Francis Vidal wrote: > hello again guys! > > i'm confused with the way my '/etc/rc.conf' turns out whenever i do > '/stand/sysinstall', the #<string> (comments) duplicate at the end of each > line! here's what my 'rc.conf' looks like: > > ---START rc.conf--- > > ############################################################## > ### Important initial Boot-time options ##################### > ############################################################## > > swapfile="NO" # Set to name of swapfile if aux swapfile desired." # Set to name of swapfile if aux swapfile desired. > apm_enable="NO" # Set to YES if you want APM enabled." # Set to YES if you want APM enabled. > pccard_enable="NO" # Set to YES if you want to configure PCCARD devices." # Set to YES if you want to configure PCCARD devices. > pccard_mem="DEFAULT" # If pccard_enable=YES, this is card memory address." # If pccard_enable=YES, this is card memory address. > pccard_ifconfig="NO" # Specialized pccard ethernet configuration (or NO)." # Specialized pccard ethernet configuration (or NO). > local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d" # startup script dirs." # startup script dirs. > > ---END rc.conf--- > > o how can i make the changes i make when in sysinstall permanent? (like > where i get my source, package, etc. > > o why do i get "inetd[xxx]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'" > messages on the system console? > > o why can't i 'su' to root access? what must i do? it says i'm not a > member of something. > > i'm sorry if i have so many questions about FreeBSD. this is my first time > to manage to FreeBSD box although i've been using Linux for quite some > time now. we use FreeBSD on our proxy server running Squid 1.NOVM.15 with > 1.5G of cache. i have heard from the Squid community of FreeBSD's > performance that's why we gave FreeBSD a try. > > thank you very much! >
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