From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 20:54:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFA314FDF for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:54:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA12101; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:24:28 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA05890; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:24:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:24:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: dale ballard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD Message-ID: <19990708132427.X2340@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37842278.BB030102@infowest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37842278.BB030102@infowest.com>; from dale ballard on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:00:56PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 7 July 1999 at 22:00:56 -0600, dale ballard wrote: > Hi, > I got FreeBSD installed on my computer and it runs fine except that > nothing I do will save when I log off. If I delete mail then log off it > returns when I log back on. If I set variables or aliases they are gon > when I log back on. I can save files but none of the commands I do, > have any effect when I log back on. Can you tell me what I am doing > wrong or what I can do to fix this problem? About the only thing I can think of is that you're not shutting the machine down properly, and your changes don't get flushed to disk. Are you using shutdown(8)? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message