From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 18:28:39 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 CED4515145 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:28:29 -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 KAA17617; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:58:26 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA11427; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:58:24 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:58:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: dale@infowest.com, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Free BSD Message-ID: <19990709105823.N6035@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37842278.BB030102@infowest.com> <19990708132427.X2340@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Lowell Gilbert on Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 08:20:08AM -0400 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 Thursday, 8 July 1999 at 8:20:08 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Greg Lehey 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