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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
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