From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 11:57:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2880B37B404 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:57:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guylian.urgle.com (guylian.urgle.com [80.177.40.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2A743FBF for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:57:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@urgle.com) Received: from mike by guylian.urgle.com with local (Exim 4.20) id 19kpx8-0006gf-CM; Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:57:34 +0000 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:57:34 +0100 From: Mike Bristow To: Charlie Schluting Message-ID: <20030807185734.GA25658@guylian.urgle.com> References: <20030806205057.V4316@cheshire.cat.pdx.edu> <20030807110007.E38219@cheshire.cat.pdx.edu> <200308072012.57140.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <20030807114610.N40243@cheshire.cat.pdx.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030807114610.N40243@cheshire.cat.pdx.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help! 5.1 doesn't do the rc thing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:57:38 -0000 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:49:00AM -0700, Charlie Schluting wrote: > Yes, of course :) > That's why I'm perplexed. I let it install the files it wanted to, > except for obvious things I didn't want overwritten: passwd file, > sendmail config, etc. > > Just to verify: my old rc.conf should be read (and honored) right? Yes. But it may contain bogosity; what does ". /etc/rc.conf" do? What's in /etc/rc.conf?