Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 16:01:09 -0500 From: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perils of login.conf (Was: fsck (2.2.5-RELEASE) large filesystems broken) Message-ID: <19971028160109.44474@num1sun.intercore.com> In-Reply-To: <199710250154.LAA02018@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au>; from Stephen McKay on Sat, Oct 25, 1997 at 11:54:11AM %2B1000 References: <19971023004136.21792@crh.cl.msu.edu> <199710240723.RAA15535@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> <19971024083642.18571@crh.cl.msu.edu> <199710250154.LAA02018@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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On Sat, Oct 25, 1997 at 11:54:11AM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote:
>
> On Friday, 24th October 1997, Charles Henrich wrote:
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> >On the subject of Re: fsck (2.2.5-RELEASE) large filesystems broken, Stephen McKay stated:
> >
> >> I'd guess that you are being bitten by /etc/login.conf. The comments in it
> >> claim that 'daemon' is used by /etc/rc and 'daemon' has "datasize=32M". Try
> >> bumping this to 64M.
> >
> >Yes, that was it. I'd like to take an assault rifle to the fellow who decided
> >the defaults for FreeBSD is so limited, especially considering in most cases
> >FreeBSD is installed as a one or two use system.
>
After installing 2.2.5, I patched in the DPT driver so that the 9 GB
scsi drives could be accessed. I found that the "daemon" section in
login.conf does nothing during /etc/rc. I placed a ulimit -a just
before the fsck there and found that the "default" section was being
used.
robin
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