From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 5 12:30:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05441 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:30:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05436 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:30:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA011920878761810; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:30:10 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA22152; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:30:10 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA29782; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:20:20 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA00746; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:20:20 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:20:20 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Francisco Reyes cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Do I need specialprogram to view/edit /etc/rc.conf In-Reply-To: <199711050858.DAA22012@federation.addy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: > The rc.conf that comes with 2.2.2 looks dissorganized when I do "less" > or cat. I tried looking at the rc.conf on the "live" file system CD and > it was the same. By dissorganized I mean that thee are more than one > entry per line and it is hard to find or read anything. > > Were these files corrupted on 2.2.2? This is due to a bug with 2.2.2's sysinstall program. You can manually fix the file by vi'ing the file and deleting the 2nd set of comments. You will need to fix the file after a while 'cos if the per line length get too big, bad things happen. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something.