From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 5 8: 5:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (ip-208-20-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E39D37B503 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26573 invoked by uid 1003); 5 Oct 2000 15:05:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Oct 2000 15:05:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:05:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marius M. Rex" To: Noor Dawod Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD ignoring /etc/rc.conf In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, I was missing the 'source' line in my rc.firewall file. But that doesn't change the fact that I have no mouse support, named doesn't come up. No default route... -Nothing- specified in the /etc/rc.conf file occurs at boot. I just ran mergemaster -s that didn't change things either. I appreciate the suggestions, but it is a pretty fundamental problem. I can start most things easily by hand, but it is annoying to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Noor Dawod wrote: > Hi Marius, > > I once had a similar problem. The solution was that one of the many > /etc/rc.* (a hunch: check /etc/rc.firewall) is not properly reading > /etc/defaults/rc.donf correctly, and this is causing mis-understanding > in your box. > > The /etc/rc.firewall should have at the begining of it the following > lines: > > if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then > . /etc/defaults/rc.conf > source_rc_confs > elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then > . /etc/rc.conf > fi > > Make sure this is inserted correctly. > > Noor > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Marius M. Rex > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 4:19 PM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD ignoring /etc/rc.conf > > > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message