From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 20 21:30:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6348315155 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:30:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-148.charm.net [209.143.116.148]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA27280 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:30:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37954CAD.5A9FE360@charm.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:29:33 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bsd-questions Subject: A sys admin Q - and misc 3.2-R Q's Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- | Voice Line: 410.922.5805 | +------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message