From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 7 12:50:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA21318 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:50:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA21305 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:50:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (dt051n19.san.rr.com [204.210.32.25]) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA24635; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:51:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <348B0BEA.14CC7FE9@dal.net> Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 12:49:46 -0800 From: Studded X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alain Fabry CC: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Urgent...Amnesiac at bootup References: <01BD030F.F8693880@mars.coserve.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alain Fabry wrote: > > For some reason I lost all the setting on the FreeBSD box and it boots up with Amnesiac. > Is that some virus or what did I do wrong "Amnesiac" is just its way of telling you that it doesn't know its hostname. Set that in /etc/rc.conf (along with your other lost settings I suppose) and you should be back in biz. Good luck, Doug