From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 7 07:01:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA06083 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 07:01:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA06070 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 07:01:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id PAA17171 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 15:59:05 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA02972; 07 Jan 98 15:46:31 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 07 Jan 98 13:22:30 +0100 Subject: Big Problem with rc.conf Message-ID: References: <199801060630.WAA03038@fraser.sfu.ca> Organization: Fidonet: UNIX-sysadm søger job To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06 Jan 98 07:30:33 Kevin McQuiggin wrote regarding Big Problem with rc.conf KM> Why does my /etc/rc.conf file look like this? It seems to grow KM> with each boot. This is a subset, the current file is ~300K and KM> has hundreds of repetitions of the comment following each option. KM> KM> THIS IS NOT AN UPLOAD ERROR, THE FILE LOOKS LIKE THIS! KM> KM> KM> ############################################################## KM> ### Important initial Boot-time options ##################### KM> ############################################################## KM> KM> swapfile="NO" # Set to name of swapfile if aux KM> swapfile desired." # Set to name of swapfile if aux KM> swapfile desired." # Set to name of swapfile if aux KM> swapfile desired." # Set to name of swapfile if aux This is caused by a well-known bug in /stand/sysinstall in release 2.2.2. Get a new one from 2.2.5, or better still, upgrade your entire system to 2.2.5. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk