From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 15:46:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CD937B422 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA49762; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:46:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39C3F84E.D2EA3E14@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:46:38 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-091 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Schroebel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf being ignored References: <20000916170048.13570.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message