Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:29:33 -0400 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: bsd-questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: A sys admin Q - and misc 3.2-R Q's Message-ID: <37954CAD.5A9FE360@charm.net>
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Hardware: 486-100mhz, 1gig IDE pri master-1/2 win 1/2 bsd,
44meg pri slave, 4x CD secondary master
3" floppy, 5" floppy
diamond speedstar 64 2000 - 1meg (for now) video
zoom fax/modem 56k, serial mouse, 101 keyboard
no sound (don't like noisy computers)
America Megatrends ROM (never a problem, yet)
There, just a plain 'ol computer. It is not used for anything
important, the IDE drive wd0s2 is a little flaky, so it is used for
"what happens it I do this" kind of stuff. When I say IDE is a little
flaky I mean the drive has bad sectors, the interface is 100%.
Here is the odd thing that happened: win95 and bsd and the MB ROM
forgot the other drive, wd1 (all dos = D:) after I did a reboot from
root. I think forgetfulness could be related to me crashing X-KDE
while SU. I have been rebooting out of bsd to win95 and back again
a few times. No reason except there is a win program I like to use.
SO:
Cold started and went into the MB ROM. Tried the 'auto detect'
option - no drive. Ok, manual edit time - that worked, the MB ROM took
the drive spec.. Start continues and guess what, win95 starts building
a new hardware database and makes the drive E:, and the CDROM D:.
I don't care the drive is ok. I have filed this under - "weird stuff"
and can't reproduce it. End of essay. If it sounds like something that
has happened to someone cool, if not; maybe I can reproduce it.
Now the sysadmin question that is the real reason I am using
bandwidth.
1) If I delete /var/log/wtmp and create an empty file of same name,
will login get real mad? The same for the other login & logout
log files.
2) Why when running X86-KDE can I not alt-F1 to ttyv0 even if my group
is 'user', not root on say, ttyv1? A thought is, that's life, plug
in a serial terminal and make that 'console'
thanks, sorry about the rant, but weird can be funny.
-d
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