On Saturday, 30 January 1999 at 16:03:48 -0800, Jake wrote: >> In -CURRENT it is now: >> >> if [ "X$skip_diskconf" != "XYES" -a -n "$vinum_slices" ]; then >> vinum read $vinum_slices >> fi > > Has this been fixed in -stable?
No. > There was the problem of $vinum_slices not being initialized > because it was being used before rc.conf had been sourced. > >>> Any ideas why this isn't working? Is it working in -current but not >>> -stable? > > This led me to believe that he was running -stable and simply > posted to the wrong group. Yes, I think you must be right. > The 'suck in rc.conf' part was moved to the top of rc after the split, > so i think this is the problem. > > IMHO this should be back-ported to stable; seems safe enough to > source rc.conf before mounting non-root filesystems. My system > isn't mission critical or anything, but I haven't run into any > gotchas. I can't see any way that this could compromise the stability of -STABLE, so I agree. Peter committed the change to -CURRENT, so I'll leave it to him. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
