Re: FreeBSD ignoring /etc/rc.conf

2000-10-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:35:40PM +0200, Noor Dawod wrote: > Hi Marius, > > I once had a similar problem. The solution was that one of the many > /etc/rc.* (a hunch: check /etc/rc.firewall) is not properly reading > /etc/defaults/rc.donf correctly, and this is causing mis-understanding > in your

Re: FreeBSD ignoring /etc/rc.conf

2000-10-05 Thread James Housley
"Marius M. Rex" wrote: > > I appreciate the suggestions, but it is a pretty fundamental > problem. I can start most things easily by hand, but it is annoying to > do. > Okay. This is all started during boot by init(). You should be able to restart and log the result by doing: "cd /etc

RE: FreeBSD ignoring /etc/rc.conf

2000-10-05 Thread Marius M. Rex
Yes, I was missing the 'source' line in my rc.firewall file. But that doesn't change the fact that I have no mouse support, named doesn't come up. No default route... -Nothing- specified in the /etc/rc.conf file occurs at boot. I just ran mergemaster -s that didn't change things

Re: FreeBSD ignoring /etc/rc.conf

2000-10-05 Thread James Housley
"Marius M. Rex" wrote: > > I did run mergemaster, by hand. It went fine. The only files I didn't > completely replace were my site specific files like resolv.conf, hosts, > password, group, inetd.conf and my rc.firewall. > Try running "mergemaster -s" to do a more complete comparison. Jim --

RE: FreeBSD ignoring /etc/rc.conf

2000-10-05 Thread Noor Dawod
Hi Marius, I once had a similar problem. The solution was that one of the many /etc/rc.* (a hunch: check /etc/rc.firewall) is not properly reading /etc/defaults/rc.donf correctly, and this is causing mis-understanding in your box. The /etc/rc.firewall should have at the begining of it the follow