Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:46:38 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Matthew Schroebel <mschroebel@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf being ignored Message-ID: <39C3F84E.D2EA3E14@gorean.org> References: <20000916170048.13570.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com>
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Matthew Schroebel wrote:
>
> 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.
It's being ignored because the rc scripts in 4.x use the new mechanism
you cut and pasted to do the sourcing, but you haven't updated those
scripts. Start with a clean install of 4.1, then edit in your local
modifications.
Good luck,
Doug
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