Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 12:37:11 -0700 From: "Michael Kerr" <mkerr@cs.ubc.ca> To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re:conf/3782: /stand/sysinstall misbehaviour in rc.conf handling Message-ID: <9706061237.ZM28948@columbia.cs.ubc.ca>
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The fix doesn't seem to be very specific. Is there a patch? What file that
grocks rc.conf causes the problem?
Thank you
Michael
On Jun 5, 7:54am, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> Subject: conf/3782: /stand/sysinstall misbehaviour in rc.conf handling
>
> >Number: 3782
> >Category: conf
> >Synopsis: /stand/sysinstall misbehaviour in rc.conf handling
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: non-critical
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: freebsd-bugs
> >State: open
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id: current-users
> >Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 4 17:00:00 PDT 1997
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: Karsten W. Rohrbach
> >Organization:
> Nacamar Data Communications
> >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386
> >Environment:
>
> out of the box 2.2.2-release installation with multiple scsi hard disks
>
> >Description:
>
> when running /stand/sysinstall to fdisk or label a disk and to set
> options it modifies /etc/rc.conf in a bad way by adding the comment
> field again and again to the end of the lines
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> run /stand/sysinstall to change a label, fdisk a disk or to change
> system config options in the configurations menu
>
> >Fix:
>
> check the code that groks rc.conf and clean out comment modification.
> add a #FIRSTTIME comment and remove it the first time sysinstall
> modifies the rc.conf file
>
>
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
>-- End of excerpt from Karsten W. Rohrbach
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