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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: rc.conf
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970810113046.002ad140@mail.muc.de> from Andreas Gaertner at "Aug 10, 97 12:30:46 pm"
To: captain@kirk.muc.de (Andreas Gaertner)
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> 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.
> 
> I will send you my "whatever-happened-to-it-rc.conf" for your information
> and the samba.log as well.
> 
> Hope to hear from you sonn, regards,

This is a known bug and addressed in the latest ERRATA.TXT to be found
at the FreeBSD mirrors in the 2.2.2-RELEASE directory.


jkh@time-> more ERRATA.TXT 
Last minute errata:
-------------------

o login as root produces "login_getclass: unknown class 'root'" on system
  console.

Fix:  If you have the source distribution installed, simply
      cp /usr/src/etc/login.conf /etc
      otherwise, get it from the FreeBSD FTP site using this URL:
      ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/etc/login.conf
      instead.  Simply cd to /etc and then run fetch(1) with the provided URL.

o sysconfig scrambles rc.conf if run again.

Fix:  Get updated /usr/src from RELENG_2_2 branch and build
      /usr/src/release/sysinstall, copying the new binary to /stand.

      If you do not have enough space for src then you could also
      use the boot/fixit floppy combo from a later 2.2-YYMMDD-RELENG
      release to simply mount your root partition (using the Fixit
      option) and copy /stand/sysinstall from the floppy to /stand on
      your root fs.



>   >> Very funny Scotty, but now beam down my clothes!! <<

Signatures like that make me answer questions on the FreeBSD mailing lists!
[giggeling ...]

Wolfgang