From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 7 15:27:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hackerz.org (hackerz.org [209.31.146.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D3A14CE7 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randy@hackerz.org) Received: from localhost (randy@localhost) by hackerz.org (5.56/) with ESMTP id SAA14006; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:36:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:36:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Quarri To: Wayne M Barnes Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: How should I change rc.conf by hand (was Re: -STABLE kernel panics during install...) In-Reply-To: <199904071422.OAA17323@klentaq1.emergingtech.org> 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 On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > > Don't 'pull rc.conf from defaults'. > > Instead, cp /etc/defaults/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.local, and then > edit rc.conf.local. > Otherwise, a nasty loop is engendered by code at the end of rc.conf, > causing 'Out of file descriptors'. Other fixes for this have > been posted, but evidently not accepted. since we are the topic, how should rc.conf be changed by hand. I know rc.conf picks up changes from /stand/sysinstall. Should all of the by hand changes go into rc.conf.local? Charles Quarri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message