Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:09:00 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf being ignored Message-ID: <20000916210900.B8587@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <20000916170048.13570.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com>; from Matthew Schroebel on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:00:48AM -0700 References: <20000916170048.13570.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com>
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Quoting Matthew Schroebel <mschroebel@yahoo.com>:
[000916 19:59]:
#>Hi all. I'm trying to both upgrade my mail server to
#>FreeBSD 4.1 and install a larger drive at the same
#>time. So I decided to put the drive in a different
#>machine, install FreeBSD 4.1 on it, move the rc.conf,
#>rc.firewall, sendmail.cf, etc over to the new drive,
#>then put the new drive in the mail server and boot it.
#> The trouble is, the /etc/rc.conf file is being
#>ignored. I looked at /etc/defaults/rc.conf and the
#>code to load the local overrides has changed from
#>prior versions. Not knowing shell scripting language,
#>and not wanting to change /etc/defaults/rc.conf, I'm
#>stuck.
#>
#>The code at the end of /etc/defaults/rc.conf is
#>
#>if [-z "${source_rc_confsdefined}" ]; then
#> source_rc_confs_defined=yes
#> source_rc_confs ( ) {
#> local i sourced_files
#> for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
#> case ${sourced_files} in
#> *:$i:*)
#> ;;
#> *)
#> sourced_files="${sourced_files}:$i"
#> if [ -r $i ]; then
#> . $i
#> fi
#> ;;
#> esac
#> done
#>}
Wasn't that weird? There are procedures for moving to new disks....
search the archives and redo the thing nicely, sir.
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