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Date:      Fri, 09 Mar 2001 23:36:19 -0800
From:      Forrest <praxis@techpraxis.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   4.3Beta, Jim Durham, Matt Emmerton, Mike Meyer, Kris Kennaway, etc.
Message-ID:  <B6CF1973.1AFB%praxis@techpraxis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103100041470.15270-100000@shazam.int>

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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



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