From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 10 11:21:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA28699 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:21:23 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA28692 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:21:15 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA10733; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:16:31 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510101816.LAA10733@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: can't delete chfn To: vince@apollo.COSC.GOV (-Vince-) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:16:31 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, taob@io.org, FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "-Vince-" at Oct 10, 95 01:27:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 564 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > It is set up from 0 in the rc file when going multiuser. > > > > It can only ever be set up during a dingle boot. > > > > You set it to 0 by rebooting single user. > > I looked in /etc/rc but where is this setting? Apparently in a file in /sys/kern. 8-(. Did you modify this away from -1? Unless you added a line to change it from its default, or hacked the kernel to change it from its default, it should be -1. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.