From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 28 21:15:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA20204 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:15:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA20191 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-ppp.i-connect.net) Received: (qmail 4146 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Oct 1997 05:15:10 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-100797 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19971028160109.44474@num1sun.intercore.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:15:10 -0800 (PST) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Robin Cutshaw Subject: Re: Perils of login.conf (Was: fsck (2.2.5-RELEASE) large filesy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Charles Henrich , Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Robin Cutshaw; On 28-Oct-97 you wrote: ... > > >Yes, that was it. I'd like to take an assault rifle to the fellow A bit extreame :-) Although the reward belongs to fdisk default behavior when you specify an invalid drive in the -i argument (it re-arranges your boot drive!), Oh, you are being told thatthat is what happenED, but then it is too late... > 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 I alerted this list to this problem several times. It probably should be a sysinstall parameter. I NEVER could boot without changing /etc/rc without this fix. Actually, I set it to unlimited; It is sensitive to the number of filesystems checked too. --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313