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From: Antony <antony.pollard@btinternet.com>
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Subject: i386/34046: Sysinstall fails to read existing conf files
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>Number:         34046
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Sysinstall fails to read existing conf files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 18 13:10:00 PST 2002
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Antony
>Release:        4.4-release
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>Environment:
>Description:
when using sysinstall during inastall and after to configure your system it is possible to make it write lines in config files that for example to disable something and then enable it.

it seems sysinstall is not reading existing conf files and seeing if there is a line enabeling or disableing something.

and good example is:

SENDMAIL_ENABLE="NO"
SENDMAIL_ENABLE="YES"
taken from rc.conf after installing Freebsd on my system.

this also happens to anything that you configure with sysinstall such as configuration of network interfaces or enabeling/disabeling services
>How-To-Repeat:
load up sysinstall and choose configure then networking then services ( i think) and enable sendmail. exit out of sysinstall and then do the same but disable sendmail. look in rc.conf and u will see that it has a line enabeling sendmail and the disabeling it which is quite pointless. This can also happen during the initial install of FreeBSDif u tell sendmail not to be enabled but it will still load on the first boot.
>Fix:
      
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