Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:58:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> Cc: dale@infowest.com, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Free BSD Message-ID: <19990709105823.N6035@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <rd61zej72pz.fsf@world.std.com>; from Lowell Gilbert on Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 08:20:08AM -0400 References: <37842278.BB030102@infowest.com> <19990708132427.X2340@freebie.lemis.com> <rd61zej72pz.fsf@world.std.com>
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On Thursday, 8 July 1999 at 8:20:08 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: > >> 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)? > > I think our esteemed Mr. Lehey has over-analyzed this problem. :-) > > It's not really clear that there is any problem here at all, other > than a new UNIX user learning curve. Saving files apparently works. I don't see that: >>> If I delete mail then log off it returns when I log back on. > Variables and aliases aren't *supposed* to be persistent across > logins; Correct. But this doesn't appear to be the only problem. 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
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