From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 7:21:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40FE37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA9243E6E for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:21:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:20:05 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17s29y-0005L8-00; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:20:02 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:20:02 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Charles Pelletier Cc: Danny , questions Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf question In-Reply-To: <005301c25f77$b541f1e0$32040101@hume> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Charles Pelletier wrote: > its all a matter of syntax. :) ya forgot a quote. > > ifconfig_rl0_alias0="192.168.1.189" netmask 255.255.255.0 That doesn't do what you think it does. Stick the quote at the _end_ of the line. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ User interface? I hardly know 'er! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message