Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 15:48:31 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf Message-ID: <20111106154831.d4eb2edf.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1320585834.66067.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <288821E5-0392-49CA-BC85-0E550769C732@gmail.com> <CA%2BQLa9By435sthvHgCfu4YKPOe5-4BkdgcZQM%2BwQZRk_hf4vUA@mail.gmail.com> <8D04DED6-9175-42C7-B553-BAC1EA129E68@gmail.com> <1320585834.66067.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 05:23:54 -0800 (PST), Bill Tillman wrote:
> Wow, to reinstall everything is like throwing the baby out
> with the bath water. Rather drastic. There are some simple
> steps you could have taken to get things back to normal but
> without knowing what you had in your original rc.conf file
> that's probably oversimplifying things.
The defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf should be
fully sufficient to bring the system up. From
this state, running sysinstall could be used to
choose settings that will cause /etc/rc.conf to
be updated. Furthermore /etc/defaults/rc.conf
can be used as a template for settings.
Depending on what a system actually will be used
for, there can be some "strange" settings required,
such as keymap or services to be enabled at boot.
Using some web web search, usabe /etc/rc.conf
templates can also be revealed. Of course they
need changes to conform to local needs.
> I keep a little script in my /root/bin folder to backup
> my config files periodically to another server. This is
> something you should look into. We all make mistakes and
> when we do, a backup copy can make the difference between
> "oh wow" and "oh f***".
I also have a copy /root/etc for the files I have
changed, and I keep my changes in a CVS repository.
I know this may sound overcomplex at _this_ particular
problem, but it helps when you have to deal with
various systems and sometimes need to undo changes.
>From that repository, I can restore any version from
any system. Even in worst case obtaining a complete
set of configuration files is possible.
The difference in the RESULT between > and >> can
be immense, and having a backup you can _quickly_
access is really a happy "oh wow", which is more
pleasant than "oh f***", especially if the last
one is expressed by others. :-)
Politely I'd also like to mention that there are no
things called "folder" on FreeBSD in particular, and
on operating systems in general. Those things are
properly called directories. ;-)
PS. Please wrap your lines < 72. Some MUAs don't do
that automatically. Thanks!
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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