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Subject: Re: What initiates running the startup files in /etc ?
From: Eric Long <eric@metrotv.com>
To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Erik,

Thank you very much, I was able to solve my problem.  /etc/rc was blank, so
I replaced it with a previous copy I had.

-Eric

>> What initiates running the startup files in /etc?  None of my startup
>> configurations are being set because /etc/rc.conf, /usr/local/etc/rc.d, etc
>> contents are not being executed at startup.  I can manually run these as
>> root but obviously this is an unacceptable scenario in that my network
>> configuration is not automatically run at startup.
>> 
>> Anyone know why /etc/rc.conf wouldn't be run at startup?  This is happening
>> after updating from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.5-STABLE.  I did run mergemaster.
> 
> During the bootprocess init(8) should execute /etc/rc which is the script
> from which all the other /etc/rc* scripts are started.


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