From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 04:01:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA13500 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from docenti.ing.unipi.it (docenti.ing.unipi.it [131.114.28.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA13486 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gabriele@localhost) by docenti.ing.unipi.it (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA16518; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:54:40 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:54:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gabriele Cecchetti To: Francis Vidal cc: FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: ugly /etc/rc.conf & others In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Francis Vidal wrote: > hello again guys! > > i'm confused with the way my '/etc/rc.conf' turns out whenever i do > '/stand/sysinstall', the # (comments) duplicate at the end of each > line! here's what my 'rc.conf' looks like: > > ---START rc.conf--- > > ############################################################## > ### Important initial Boot-time options ##################### > ############################################################## > > swapfile="NO" # Set to name of swapfile if aux swapfile desired." # Set to name of swapfile if aux swapfile desired. > apm_enable="NO" # Set to YES if you want APM enabled." # Set to YES if you want APM enabled. > pccard_enable="NO" # Set to YES if you want to configure PCCARD devices." # Set to YES if you want to configure PCCARD devices. > pccard_mem="DEFAULT" # If pccard_enable=YES, this is card memory address." # If pccard_enable=YES, this is card memory address. > pccard_ifconfig="NO" # Specialized pccard ethernet configuration (or NO)." # Specialized pccard ethernet configuration (or NO). > local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d" # startup script dirs." # startup script dirs. > > ---END rc.conf--- > > o how can i make the changes i make when in sysinstall permanent? (like > where i get my source, package, etc. In 2.2.2 Release sysistall don't work well with rc.conf: I suggest to edit rc.conf with your favorite editor. > > o why do i get "inetd[xxx]: login_getclass: unknown class 'root'" > messages on the system console? Read ERRATA.TXT in ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE (You have to get a file 'login.conf' not included in original distribution) > > o why can't i 'su' to root access? what must i do? it says i'm not a > member of something. > Are you member of wheel group ? If don't login root and add your username to this group in /etc/group. e.g wheel:*:0:root,gabriele,youruser daemon:*:1:daemon kmem:*:2:root sys:*:3:root ecc. > i'm sorry if i have so many questions about FreeBSD. this is my first time > to manage to FreeBSD box although i've been using Linux for quite some > time now. we use FreeBSD on our proxy server running Squid 1.NOVM.15 with > 1.5G of cache. i have heard from the Squid community of FreeBSD's > performance that's why we gave FreeBSD a try. FreeBSD is not only the good choice, it's the best choice! Gabriele ============================================================================ Ing. Gabriele Cecchetti Abitazione: email: gabriele@ing.unipi.it Via Lenin 127 http://www.ing.unipi.it/~gabriele 56010 Pappiana, PISA (Italy) Tel: +39-50-862316 =============================================================================