From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 9 19:01:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA05563 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 19:01:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA05554 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 19:01:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA171270881722898; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:01:38 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id QAA08241; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:01:36 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08810; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:32:26 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA03313; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:32:26 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:32:25 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Adam Simpson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc.conf getting garbled continuously In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Adam Simpson wrote: > Hello, we have a machine here that seems to continually get it's rc.conf > file all garbled any ideas what may be casuing this? If I leave it then > reboot I get booted in as anemiac or whatever that is when the computer > does not know who he is. This is a known problem with FreeBSD 2.2.2R /stand/sysinstall. It garbles rc.conf on exit. If you upgrade to 2.2.5R it should go away, otherwise, you'll have to save a good copy which you copy back after coming out of sysinstall. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards