From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 15:21:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A71D15FA9 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 29418 invoked from network); 22 Sep 1999 22:20:35 -0000 Received: from userao59.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.135.175) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 1999 22:20:35 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id XAA01495; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:11:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:11:56 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Monte Westlund Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Followup, was: bad rc.conf? Message-ID: <19990922231156.C781@marder-1> References: <3.0.5.32.19990922112441.007ae900@memes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990922112441.007ae900@memes.com>; from Monte Westlund on Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:24:41AM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:24:41AM -0700, Monte Westlund wrote: > Thanks all that replied, and those who will. > > I have booted as single user and nuked /etc/rc.conf. The machine now boots. > Excellent:) > I had been making my changes to /etc/defaults/rc.conf so I have all of my > 'overrides'. I think I was following instructions I was given correctly. > Maybe I was given bad instructions. > It sounds like you misunderstood them. /etc/defaults/rc.conf should not be changed. The recommended way to change these defaults is to copy the relevant *lines* to /etc/rc.conf and edit change them there. For example, when you install, any items specific to your system, e.g. hostname, network settings etc, are put in /etc/rc.conf for you. If you later wish to change, for examplpe, the console screensaver and the 8x8 font then copy the ``saver='' and ``font8x8='' lines to /etc/rc.conf and edit them. By way of an example, this is my /etc/rc.conf: # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf # please make all changes to this file. # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # ifconfig_xl0="inet netmask 255.255.255.0" moused_port="/dev/psm0" moused_enable="YES" # saver="warp" saver="matrix" blanktime="300" scrnmap="NO" defaultrouter="NO" network_interfaces="xl0 lo0" hostname="marder-1" linux_enable="YES" allscreens_flags="-m on VGA_80x30" font8x8="iso-8x8" font8x14="iso-8x14" font8x16="iso-thin-8x16" keymap="uk.cp850.swap" # dumpdev="/dev/da0s3b" > Best regards, > Monte Westlund > -Monte > montejw@memes.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message