Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:26:24 +0100 (BST) From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Toasting /etc/rc.conf... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810061320500.243-100000@caladan.tdx.co.uk>
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This is probably a very minor point in the grand scheme of things, but I managed to complete delete my /etc/rc.conf the other day by: 1. Going single user 2. vi'ing /etc/rc.conf 3. Suspending vi 4. running /stand/sysinstall sysinstall hung at the 'Probing devices prompt - this may take some time', and I had to switch the machine off (I'm running a serial console now - which couldn't quit sysinstall, and the VGA one appeared 'dead' - as it does now I'm on a serial one). When the machine came back up - it did so as 'amnesic', and sure enough /etc/rc.conf was a zero byte file... Vi reckoned it couldn't recover any files either... I know this is probably a 'stupid thing to do' (tm), but nasty all the same - I just thought someone might want to know... ;-) This also served as 'another good reason to do backups' though, as I'd backed up the system about 5 minutes previous, and now know what restore is like in interactive mode ;-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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