From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 13 23:18:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01287 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:18:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oolong.camellia.org (oolong.camellia.org [206.119.96.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01279 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alan@oolong.camellia.org) Received: (from alan@localhost) by oolong.camellia.org (8.8.8/8.8.8+Erasmus) id CAA07003; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 02:17:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alan) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 02:17:26 -0500 (EST) References: <8Jan1999.042549.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> <19990108192746.B63511@scientia.demon.co.uk> <9Jan1999.220116.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> <19990110041754.A94335@scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-Id: <14Jan1999.015739.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> From: Alan Bawden To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990110041754.A94335@scientia.demon.co.uk> (message from Ben Smithurst on Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:17:54 +0000) Subject: Re: messing with /etc/rc.conf (continued) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ha! I'm not crazy! I'll bet it's /stand/sysinstall that edits my /etc/rc.conf: oolong:alan> strings /stand/sysinstall | grep -4 \\.previous /etc/rc.conf %s="%s"%s %s="%s" Writing configuration changes to %s file.. cp %s %s.previous network_interfaces ifconfig_ %s%s WVSh And I do recall that about a month ago I tried to use `sysinstall' to install some package or another. The handbook -says- this is supposed to work, and I was seduced by the idea of just being able to just point at a menu, but I was eventually forced to retreat to using plain old `pkg_add'. But I'll bet that's when my rc.conf got munged. OK, you guys can stop sending me mail now telling me that rc.conf is just a shell script. Thanks for your time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message