From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 23:36:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from repulse.cnchost.com (repulse.concentric.net [207.155.248.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1873B37B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 23:36:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from praxis@techpraxis.com) Received: from [64.221.116.130] (w130.z064221116.sea-wa.dsl.cnc.net [64.221.116.130]) by repulse.cnchost.com id CAA03108; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 02:36:19 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.10] User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 23:36:19 -0800 Subject: 4.3Beta, Jim Durham, Matt Emmerton, Mike Meyer, Kris Kennaway, etc. From: Forrest To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks everybody. > There was a change to the way the rc files are read, I believe around > 4.1. Check that you have "source_rc_confs" in rc, rc.devfs, rc.diskless2, > rc.firewall, rc.shutdown and in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. If not, you > have old versions of these files and the system will appear to be > ignoring config changes. Just a thought.. > > -Jim Durham Thanks Jim and Mike: Fixed 50% of my problems: after reading your posts, I thought maybe looking at the source would help, indeed it did. I ran diff /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf with the /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and discovered [duh!] that most of my important settings had been hosed in the merge differences operation. Then, gradually, tonight, I refreshed all my rc.* files. My console still doesn't have permissions [Mike: even when run as root] but I expect this will reveal itself soon. Forrest To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message