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From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
To: "Brad Knowles" <blk@skynet.be>
Cc: "FreeBSD Stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
References: <199904071422.OAA17323@klentaq1.emergingtech.org>
Subject: Re: -STABLE kernel panics during install...
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:48:50 -0500
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From: Wayne M Barnes <stabilizer@klentaq1.emergingtech.org>
>     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.
>
I wouldn't do this either, as you'll get the same problem as copying it to
rc.conf, because when /etc/defaults/rc.conf pulls in /etc/rc.conf.local,
rc.conf.local will then pull in rc.conf & rc.conf.local (until you run out
of file descriptors).

If you do copy /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local
make sure that you remove:

##############################################################
### Allow local configuration override at the very end here ##
##############################################################
#
#

for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
        if [ -f $i ]; then
                . $i
        fi
done


from the end of the file.

Scot



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