From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 23 14:04:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14334 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iconz.co.nz (iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14327 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by iconz.co.nz (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA22362; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:01:32 +1200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA30045; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:01:30 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA20002; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:59:06 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id IAA11042; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:59:06 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:59:05 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: "Thomas D. Dean" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupted or Changed /etc/rc.conf In-Reply-To: <33D5C71B.167EB0E7@ix.netcom.com> 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 Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2, yesterday. I have looked at rc.conf > several times and made a couple of changes, with vi. > > Now, looking at rc.conf, I see the comments at the end of the > assignment lines multiplied and a trailing " appended. > > I looked at a different machine, with at most one change to rc.conf > and the comments were only doubled, not multiplied by 10 > > Anyone have ANY idea what can cause this? Buggy /stand/sysinstall. If you're using it to install new distributions, for example, it will alter /etc/rc.conf oddly. -- Jonathan Chen e-mail : jonc@pinnacle.co.nz Pinnacle Software Ltd Voice : +64.9.415.4460 Auckland, New Zealand Fax : +64.9.415.4250