SOLVED ->Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-30 Thread Keith Spencer
woe. I > screwed up fbsd 4.7 > > > > system rc.conf and can only seem to boot into > a basic session. > > > > Cant edit or save to /etc files. What to do > and you guessed > > > > it...noboot disk was made although I have > another 4.7 fbsd machine &g

Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-28 16:04:58 +1000: > --- Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, > 2003-06-27 at 23:57, Keith Spencer wrote: > > > Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. I screwed up fbsd 4.7 > > > system rc.conf and can only seem to boot into

Solved > RE: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-28 Thread Keith Spencer
Yet again the FBSD community kick goals! Thanks heaps Keith --- Roland Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > adam, > try: > "fsck -y" (check the filesystem) > "mount -uw /" (mount root filesystem read/write) > > if you saved a backup of the rc

Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: "Keith Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 1:04 AM Subject: Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly! > Thanks Adam, > When the machine boots it drops str

Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-27 Thread Rob
nt: Saturday, June 28, 2003 3:34 PM Subject: Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly! > Thanks Adam, > When the machine boots it drops straight into (I > guess) single user mode. The /usr/sbin /usr/bin cant > be cd-ed to and the /etc dir says it is read only file >

Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-27 Thread Keith Spencer
Any clue? Can I interupt the boot and do something? This is a mission critical machine darn it...Oh dear! Keith --- Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:57, Keith Spencer wrote: > > Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. > > I screwed up fbsd 4.7 syste

Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-27 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:57, Keith Spencer wrote: > Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. > I screwed up fbsd 4.7 system rc.conf and can only seem > to boot into a basic session. Cant edit or save to > /etc files. > What to do and you guessed it...noboot disk was made > altho

Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-27 Thread Keith Spencer
Hi all, Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. I screwed up fbsd 4.7 system rc.conf and can only seem to boot into a basic session. Cant edit or save to /etc files. What to do and you guessed it...noboot disk was made although I have another 4.7 fbsd machine nearby. Tell me it's not fatal

Re: SV: rc.conf in 5.1?

2003-06-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Markus Svensson wrote: > > This is not a problem of /etc/rc.conf . There was a long > > discussion about that on the freebsd-currrent mailing list the > > last days. Several people complained about it and several others > > will try to fix the proble

SV: rc.conf in 5.1?

2003-06-14 Thread Markus Svensson
> This is not a problem of /etc/rc.conf . There was a long > discussion about that on the freebsd-currrent mailing list the > last days. Several people complained about it and several others > will try to fix the problem > If you can, try to cvsup to RELENG_5_1 . Now my ADSL-co

Re: rc.conf in 5.1?

2003-06-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Kjell Midtseter wrote: > On Saturday, 14 June 2003 at 21:38:41 +0200, Markus Svensson wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I've just finished src upgrading my 5.0R box to 5.1R. > > I've got one small problem though. After the upgrade, the system no

Re: rc.conf in 5.1?

2003-06-14 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On Saturday, 14 June 2003 at 21:38:41 +0200, Markus Svensson wrote: > Hi all! > > I've just finished src upgrading my 5.0R box to 5.1R. > I've got one small problem though. After the upgrade, the system no > longer seems to use /etc/rc.conf during startup. This means

rc.conf in 5.1?

2003-06-14 Thread Markus Svensson
Hi all! I've just finished src upgrading my 5.0R box to 5.1R. I've got one small problem though. After the upgrade, the system no longer seems to use /etc/rc.conf during startup. This means that my ADSL-connection does not start, and that the correct keymap isn't loaded.

Re: How to configure Wireless access with WEP on a laptop AND use DHCPin/etc/rc.conf

2003-06-04 Thread Christian Sauer
me-128-bit-key" command into /etc/start_if.wi0 > And it works fine, provided I run dhclient manually. But I can't just > replace the dummies with DHCP (been there, it doesn't work). and then in /etc/rc.conf, you can go back to ifconfig_wi0="dhcp" > How should I do

How to configure Wireless access with WEP on a laptop AND use DHCPin/etc/rc.conf

2003-06-04 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
I've discovered the wonderful world of wireless Internet access on my FreeBSD laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 380XD running 4.8-STABLE), but I have a problem. Configuring the interface to do both DHCP and initialize with all the WEP parameters seems to be mutually exclusive. I've worked around it by putt

Re: rc.conf

2003-03-21 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, It depends on what parameters you have changed in rc.conf. For example if you have changed the hostname then go to the /etc directory grep "hostname" * You will find the search resulting in a shell script file. Here it is rc.network: hostname ${hostname} Then just run

Re: rc.conf

2003-03-21 Thread Ryan Merrick
Tiago Andre wrote: How do i "compile" my rc.conf file? whidout restar the pc thanks _ MSN Oscar: tem um palpite de quem vai ganhar? http://www.msn.com.br/oscar/enquete/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: rc.conf

2003-03-21 Thread Bill Moran
Tiago Andre wrote: How do i "compile" my rc.conf file? whidout restar the pc You can't. The settings in rc.conf affect a number of different startup scripts. I don't know of any way to reliably incorporate all rc.conf changes into a running system. On the flip side, if you k

RE: rc.conf

2003-03-21 Thread Fredrick Nilsson
003 12:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rc.conf How do i "compile" my rc.conf file? whidout restar the pc thanks _ MSN Oscar: tem um palpite de quem vai ganhar? http://www.msn.com.br/oscar/enquete/ To Unsubscribe: send

rc.conf

2003-03-21 Thread Tiago Andre
How do i "compile" my rc.conf file? whidout restar the pc thanks _ MSN Oscar: tem um palpite de quem vai ganhar? http://www.msn.com.br/oscar/enquete/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: IP Aliasing in rc.conf

2003-03-06 Thread Nigel Soon
mplement one > IP alias (same subnet) on a single fxp NIC in rc.conf (for the purposes of > running a "dual samba/samba-tng" installation): > > ipconfig_fxp0="inet 10.0.0.201 netmask 255.0.0.0" > ipconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 10.0.0.211 netmask 255.255.255.255"

IP Aliasing in rc.conf

2003-03-06 Thread Martyn Hill
Hi all Can someone confirm that the following is the correct way to implement one IP alias (same subnet) on a single fxp NIC in rc.conf (for the purposes of running a "dual samba/samba-tng" installation): ipconfig_fxp0="inet 10.0.0.201 netmask 255.0.0.0" ipconfig_fxp0_ali

Re: rc.conf syntax for ip alias on external nic

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Emmerton
ias1="inet 129.x.x.5 netmask 255.255.255.255" Matt - Original Message - From: "Redmond Militante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 12:13 PM Subject: rc.conf syntax for ip alias on external nic hi i have the foll

rc.conf syntax for ip alias on external nic

2003-02-10 Thread Redmond Militante
hi i have the following lines in my rc.conf, and i was wondering if my syntax was ok: --- #here, i'm setting the ip/subnet mask for outside nic interface for a dual homed gateway box ifconfig_xl0="inet 129.x.x.35 netmask 255.255.255.0" #declaring three network interface

Re: rc.conf

2002-12-17 Thread Aleksey I. Yurlov
Try to look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf variables that can be in /etc/rc.conf for ex. if you need some tunnings about firewall - do something like this: grep -i fire /etc/defaults/rc.conf >> /etc/rc.conf Thomas Spreng wrote: Hi, On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:32:03PM +, Tiago Andre

Re: rc.conf

2002-12-17 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:32:03PM +, Tiago Andre wrote: > > How do i compile my rc.conf you dont need to, its read on each startup... > > Thanks > Tiago Camilo > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: rc.conf

2002-12-17 Thread Paul Everlund
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Tiago Andre wrote: > How do i compile my rc.conf You don't compile that file. It is an editable text file and should remain being that. This file keeps system dependent configuration options that you can alter to suit your needs. > Thanks > Tiago Camilo

rc.conf

2002-12-17 Thread Tiago Andre
How do i compile my rc.conf Thanks Tiago Camilo _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

rc.conf IPv6 configuration

2002-12-12 Thread Janine C . Buorditez
ault -interface gif0 ifconfig lo0 inet6 3ffe:80ee:1075::1200 prefixlen 128 What is wrong in my rc.conf? And, will it now be defaultrouter for my workstation (192.168.187.2)? Thanks! --janine To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

IPv6 - From commands to rc.conf

2002-12-12 Thread Janine C . Buorditez
Hi. My tunnel broker explains to me my IPv6 setup only through commands and not concrete settings in /etc/rc.conf. Can anyone help me out judging from this?: @@ ifconfig $TUNLIF create tunnel $MYIPv4 $XSIPv4 up route add -inet6 default -interface $TUNLIF ifconfig lo0

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-11-03 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, at 17:52 [=GMT-0500], Peter Leftwich wrote: > But I wonder why there is no unix > standard command to view and/or set the PC's current timezone! Perhaps I don't understand your problem? What is wrong with 'date'? voo:marc {783} date Mon Nov 4 00:12:38 CET 2002 So I have CET

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Jacob Rhoden wrote: > Are you in the right time zone? If you are in australia, you have to set > preciscely where you are for it to work (for example, here in melbourne our > time zone just went back an our for summer). Dont know if this may help, but > i would guess that is wh

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Kent Stewart wrote: > > ntpdate_enable="YES" # Run ntpdate to sync time on boot (or NO). > > ntpdate_program="/usr/sbin/ntpdate" # path to ntpdate, if you want a different >one. > > ntpdate_flags="-b clock.isc.org" # Flags to ntpdate (if enabled).

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-10-29 Thread Peter McGarvey
* Peter Leftwich [Tuesday 29 October 2002 04:11 am] > I thought I had this in my /etc/rc.conf but didn't, so I added the > following lines and rebooted: > > ntpdate_enable="YES" # Run ntpdate to sync time on boot (or > NO). ntpdate_program="/usr/

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-10-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-28 20:11:41 -0800: > I thought I had this in my /etc/rc.conf but didn't, so I added the > following lines and rebooted: > > ntpdate_enable="YES" # Run ntpdate to sync time on boot (or NO). > ntpdate_program="/usr/sbin

Re: ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-10-28 Thread Kent Stewart
Peter Leftwich wrote: I thought I had this in my /etc/rc.conf but didn't, so I added the following lines and rebooted: ntpdate_enable="YES" # Run ntpdate to sync time on boot (or NO). ntpdate_program="/usr/sbin/ntpdate" # path to ntpdate, if

ntpdate problems in /etc/rc.conf

2002-10-28 Thread Peter Leftwich
I thought I had this in my /etc/rc.conf but didn't, so I added the following lines and rebooted: ntpdate_enable="YES" # Run ntpdate to sync time on boot (or NO). ntpdate_program="/usr/sbin/ntpdate" # path to ntpdate, if you want a different one. ntpdat

Re: Oops! rc.conf mistake

2002-10-23 Thread Jim Durham
> >>>> > >>>>I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake. > >>>> > >>>>I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the > >>>> end (unterminated string) - now I cannot get

Re: Oops! rc.conf mistake

2002-10-23 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 11:09 AM 10.23.2002 -0400, Jim Durham wrote: >Jack L. Stone wrote: >> At 09:28 AM 10.23.2002 +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: >> >>>Steve Warwick wrote: >>> >>>>Hey all, >>>> >>>>I wonder if anyone can te

Re: Oops! rc.conf mistake

2002-10-23 Thread Jim Durham
Jack L. Stone wrote: At 09:28 AM 10.23.2002 +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Steve Warwick wrote: Hey all, I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake. I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the end (unterminated strin

Re: Oops! rc.conf mistake

2002-10-23 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 09:28 AM 10.23.2002 +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: >Steve Warwick wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake. >> >> I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the end

Re: Oops! rc.conf mistake

2002-10-23 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Steve Warwick wrote: Hey all, I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake. I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the end (unterminated string) - now I cannot get past mounting root, so no editors. And before you ask, no, I did not backup

Re: Oops! rc.conf mistake

2002-10-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-22 00:21, Steve Warwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake. > > I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the end > (unterminated string) - now I cannot get past mounting root, s

Re: Oops! rc.conf mistake

2002-10-21 Thread Duncan Anker
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 17:21, Steve Warwick wrote: > Hey all, > > I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake. > > I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the end > (unterminated string) - now I cannot get past mounting root, so

Oops! rc.conf mistake

2002-10-21 Thread Steve Warwick
Hey all, I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake. I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the end (unterminated string) - now I cannot get past mounting root, so no editors. And before you ask, no, I did not backup rc.conf... I told you it

Re: route settings in rc.conf - question, with details.

2002-10-15 Thread Firsto Lasto
Thank you very much for that help - unfortunately Igot the wrong information and stated the problem slightly incorrect. In reality, the rc.conf in question is: defaultrouter="10.10.10.1" ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.10.10.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=&quo

Re: route settings in rc.conf - question, with details.

2002-10-14 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
From: "Firsto Lasto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > I have a system with IPs assigned from 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 > > Right now I have this in my rc.conf: > > defaultrouter="10.10.10.10" > ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.0.1 netma

route settings in rc.conf - question, with details.

2002-10-14 Thread Firsto Lasto
Hi, I have a system with IPs assigned from 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 Right now I have this in my rc.conf: defaultrouter="10.10.10.10" ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255&qu

Re: /etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-19 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Charles Pelletier wrote: > its all a matter of syntax. :) ya forgot a quote. > > ifconfig_rl0_alias0="192.168.1.189" netmask 255.255.255.0 That doesn't do what you think it does. Stick the quote at the _end_ of the line. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://w

Re: /etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-18 Thread Charles Pelletier
its all a matter of syntax. :) ya forgot a quote. ifconfig_rl0_alias0="192.168.1.189" netmask 255.255.255.0 --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: /etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-18 Thread Duncan Anker
be the system had already remounted R/W by this stage. > > Then you will need to either edit your rc.conf to (presumably) > fix the quotation mark, or else (as you tried): > > cp /etc/rc.conf_backup /etc/rc.conf > > Hope this helps, > > Greg > > To Unsubscribe:

Re: /etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-18 Thread Danny
Dear Duncan, I did what you specified in the instruciton below, mount /usr pico /etc/rc.conf After I make the changes the computer gives me a "read only" message and I can't save the file. Yours faithfully, Danny - Original Message - From: "Duncan Anker&quo

Re: /etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-18 Thread Brett D. Estrade
>/etc/rc.conf 24 Syntax Error: Unterminated quotated string There is no terminating quotation mark at the end of the setting --- Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to add a additional ip address to my test FreeBSD machine by > issuing the following

Re: /etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-18 Thread Greg Lane
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:44:05AM +1000, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to add a additional ip address to my test FreeBSD machine by > issuing the following command : > > 1) cp /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf_backup > 2)vi /etc/rc.conf > 3)

Re: /etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-18 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 10:44, Danny wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to add a additional ip address to my test FreeBSD machine by > issuing the following command : > > 1) cp /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf_backup > 2)vi /etc/rc.conf > 3)I typed in the following entry

/etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-18 Thread Danny
Hi, I was trying to add a additional ip address to my test FreeBSD machine by issuing the following command : 1) cp /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf_backup 2)vi /etc/rc.conf 3)I typed in the following entry ifconfig_rl0_alias0="192.168.1.189 netmask 255.255.255.0 When I reboot the computer I ge

RE: rc.conf and adding a command

2002-07-16 Thread Allan McDonald
age- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Grant Cooper Sent: Saturday, 6 July 2002 2:17 AM To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: rc.conf and adding a command I've been working on this for awhile. From the command line I can run /sbin/natd -n vr0 but I have read I can p

rc.conf and adding a command

2002-07-16 Thread Grant Cooper
I've been working on this for awhile. From the command line I can run /sbin/natd -n vr0 but I have read I can put this line into rc.conf. I've tried alot of combinations but can seem to get it to click. I currently have, natd_interface="vr0" I wrote a script to do this but I w

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