From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Aug 10 04:32:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA17275 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 04:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fragile.ideal.net.au (rob@fragile.ideal.net.au [203.20.241.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA17270 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 04:32:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (rob@localhost) by fragile.ideal.net.au (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA05249; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:31:32 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:31:32 +1000 (EST) From: Rob Wise To: Andreas Gaertner cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc.conf In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970810113046.002ad140@mail.muc.de> Message-ID: X-WonK: Hmm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Andreas Gaertner wrote: > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.2 RELEASE and having much fun with it. The only > thing that is mysterious about it is that something seems to manipulate the > rc.conf since it gradually grows in size. First time I recognized that, it > already had a size of more than 200k!! The genuine size should be aroung 7k > depending on the entries made. > Moreover am I running the samba package to be able to have access from > WindowsNT-Clients. I don't know whether this may have any influence on > rc.conf. This happened to me yesterday, shortly after installing from the cd. All the comments in rc.conf were doubled up. At that stage I hadn't installed anything outside the freebsd distribution. Samba wasn't, and still isn't installed.. I'm not sure what I may have done to cause it. I just put it down to general freakyness and copied in a new rc.conf. Rob