From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 5 13:52:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA11729 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 13:52:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from iconoclastic.com (dyna208.dialup.dti.net [206.252.158.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA11541 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 13:50:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@dti.net) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by iconoclastic.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA00177; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:48:32 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: iconoclastic.com: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:48:31 +0000 (GMT) From: sporkl X-Sender: spork@iconoclastic.com Reply-To: sporkl@dti.net 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 Hello. I have had similar problems, and I can't figure out why. I restored rc.conf from rc.conf~ and the problem went away, but it has reccurred, so I keep an rc.save sitting around. Why does this happen? -Spike Gronim sporkl@dti.net "Tradition is the chastity belt of the mind" 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? > > >