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Date:      Mon, 9 Dec 1996 22:24:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
To:        "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "talk" does not work. Please help.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961209222102.3911B-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <ABTvDhomz0@vas.tomsk.su>

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> >   > 1. What does this "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists" message mean?
> >   >    Is it an error?
[snip]
> Do you have the same message when you issue this command? Or is
> it some local configuration bug?

I've seen it before during the boot process, but not when I enter the
ifconfig command. I don't remember if I did anything to get rid of it or
not... I haven't payed much attention to the boot messages recently. 

> Indeed, what you do in sysconfig is assigning some string to a
> variable which is later read in some other startup files. Thus,

Quite right, I didn't think about that.

> May be I should put this line into /etc/netstart? Any other ideas?

Whatever works.



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