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Date:      Thu,  5 Oct 2000 08:28:37 -0600
From:      "Brad Biggers" <biggers@dfn.com>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD ignoring /etc/rc.conf
Message-ID:  <200010050828.AA166985936@dfn.com>

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I am by no means an expert...but dont you have to rebuild the kernel after you run mergemaster?

Brad Biggers

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Marius M. Rex" <marius@malkav.snowmoon.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:18:39 -0400 (EDT)

>Hi,
>
>I am using:
>
>$ uname -a
>FreeBSD utterlux.communityconnect.com 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE
>#0: Wed Oct  4 10:39:24 EDT 2000
>root@utterlux.communityconnect.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/UTTERLUX  i386
>
>
>Though I cvsup'ed a while back, I just got to 'make installworld'
>yesterday. (work has been busy)  Anyway, I rebooted this morning and found
>that it is basically ignoring my /etc/rc.conf file.  It ignores the
>firewall type I setup, my default route, the fact that I have a
>mouse. etc.  (It does this consistantly on each reboot)  
>
>This same thing happened to me before the last time I cvsup'ed to
>4.x-stable.  I thought it was just that I did something wrong.  So I was
>expecting doing it again, now that I have updated a number of
>other machines sucessfully, that it would work again.  
>
>'make buildworld' 'make installworld' and mergemaster (Done completely by
>hand) went through without a hitch.  I don't quite understand what is
>wrong.  But it will do this to me every time I reboot.  (Which,
>admittedly, is infrequently.)
>
>Anyone else had this problem?  I havn't sen it mentioned on the list.
>
>Here is my /etc/rc.conf file if it matters:
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
># This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf
># please make all changes to this file.
>
># -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
>linux_enable="YES"
>moused_enable="YES"
># -- marius additions -- #
>firewall_enable="YES"
>firewall_type="CLIENT"
>tcp_drop_synfin="YES"
>tcp_restrict_rst="YES" 
>sendmail_enable="NO"
>named_enable="YES"
> 
># -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
>lpd_enable="YES"
>ipv6_enable="NO"
>usbd_enable="YES"
>sshd_enable="YES"
>ifconfig_fxp0="inet 216.89.86.152  netmask 255.255.255.0"
>defaultrouter="216.89.86.128"
>hostname="utterlux.communityconnect.com"
>check_quotas="NO"
>ntpdate_flags="bitsy.mit.edu"
>ntpdate_enable="YES"
>moused_enable="YES"
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Marius M. Rex
>"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is
>no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five
>hundred."
>                -- The Mahabharata
>
>
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