On Nov 23, 2007 7:34 AM, Christian Krützfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > The other day I had an unexpected power outage and then when it was back on > pfsense (1.2 RC2) didn't work. > > It booted fine until the point where it wanted to start pfsense. The hard > disk somehow "lost" the symlink for the directory where the configuration > file is stored. I have no idea how that could happen, but all I needed to do > is recreate the symlink and after a reboot everything worked fine. > > The problem obviously is, when this happens the symlink has to be created > locally as the server isn't reachable over the network. > > Since the code that creates the symlink for the configuration folder and all > other symlinks is somewhere in there, would it be an option to run this code > every time the server boots and simply recreate them every time. > I know this won't solve the problem of the symlink disappearing, but it > should overcome situations where this happens.
Not really an option since we have so many ways of storing config.xml. Hard disk, compact flash, floppy disks, etc. Maybe we need to record where the config.xml resides and restore from that. But I am hesitant to make this change to the 1.2 branch as we are about to release. Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
