From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 12 11:58:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA23107 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:58:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA23095 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:58:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA17590; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 20:57:27 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA05399; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 20:57:27 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id TAA05558; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:48:23 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602121848.TAA05558@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: More 2.1 Fixit disk PROBLEM (fwd) To: steve@news.netdtw.com (Steve Corso) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:48:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Steve Corso" at Feb 11, 96 09:06:28 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Steve Corso wrote: > > Ok...Well, I was on the right track. You do need the /etc/services and > /etc/protocols files, but AH!!, you need to put links up to them since > the fixit gets moved to /mnt2. > > Now then, I would think that there is a place where the already existing > link to /etc/spwd.db gets set. However, how that happens remains a secret > that I cannot figure out. Most likely inside sysinstall. Don't try to cope with rebuilding it ``on the fly'', unless you can devote some 400 MB of free disk space, a full CVS tree, plus umpty hours of spare time to spend in a ``make release''. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)