From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 14:46:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA01479 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:46:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (pop01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01472 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:46:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA41443; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 21:46:35 GMT Message-Id: <199608212146.VAA41443@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 17:45:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.52 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: New kernel lost settings and deleted user entries!!! Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Today I installed 2.1.5 at work. I created a few users and set up the networking configuration (DNS server etc...) I created a new kernel and it went OK. When I rebooted the users were gone and the computer lost its configuration (ie the computer name is not the prompt anymore but the default) I don't mind much that I lost the settings, but I would like to know what files I need to copy before I do a new kernel. It would also be nice if the documentation mentioned this behavior The user directories and still there, but when I couldn't log in with a user different from root I did vipw and all the users I had added where gone.