Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:24:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dale ballard <dale@infowest.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD Message-ID: <19990708132427.X2340@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37842278.BB030102@infowest.com>; from dale ballard on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:00:56PM -0600 References: <37842278.BB030102@infowest.com>
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On Wednesday, 7 July 1999 at 22:00:56 -0600, dale ballard wrote: > Hi, > I got FreeBSD installed on my computer and it runs fine except that > nothing I do will save when I log off. If I delete mail then log off it > returns when I log back on. If I set variables or aliases they are gon > when I log back on. I can save files but none of the commands I do, > have any effect when I log back on. Can you tell me what I am doing > wrong or what I can do to fix this problem? About the only thing I can think of is that you're not shutting the machine down properly, and your changes don't get flushed to disk. Are you using shutdown(8)? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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