From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 14:51:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5D61065670 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:51:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAAEC8FC0A for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:51:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JlmVT-0000YU-0T; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:51:35 +0100 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id m3FEpXki007149; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:51:33 +0100 Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B268DFCA4AF; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:51:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:51:28 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: Eric Zimmerman Message-ID: <20080415145128.GA52112@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Eric Zimmerman , freebsd-questions References: <480258D5.1090301@mikestammer.com> <48029945.1040302@paraklet.net> <4802B0FC.3090208@mikestammer.com> <20080414164330.GA48818@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4803B05B.4050609@mikestammer.com> <4803B285.5070305@mikestammer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4803B285.5070305@mikestammer.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:51:34 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: start up scripts stopped working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:51:41 -0000 On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:37:41PM -0600, Eric Zimmerman wrote: > > Eric Zimmerman wrote: > >Frank Shute wrote: > >> > >>I spotted a couple of things with your rc.conf that could be causing > >>you trouble: > >> > >>1) There are a lot of unquoted YES's for enabling services. I don't > >>know if that could screw thing's up but for form's sake, I'd try quoting > >>them and rebooting. > >> > >>2) You seem to have set your security level quite high. I can't find > >>where they are documented in 6.3 (in 7.0 under security(7)) but it > >>could be worth a try commenting out the securelevel lines and > >>rebooting and then setting your security level through sysctl (I > >>think you can do that). > > > >I will give this a whirl and see how it goes. I have never had issues > >with the unquoted YES statements unless they are not balanced (i.e. > >foo_enable=YES" or foo_enable="YES blows up), but I did quote everything > >to be consistent > > > >I commented out the securelevel stuff as well. > > > >Thanks for the suggestions. i will report back once i get the box rebooted > > success! commenting out the securelevel resolved the issue. i never ran > into that before, but glad its working as expected now. > > Thanks for the help! I'm glad it worked but beware as to what has now changed. I found info on the secure level in 6.2. There's info on the secure level here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#SECURELEVEL and in init(8). Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html