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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.corpcomm.net!news.pe.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: device settings do not save Date: 4 Apr 1996 22:46:48 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4k1jgo$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4jjok5$2sh@news.bridge.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 efrain@miami.com (Efrain, Miami) writes: > I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 and cant seem to be able to save the > device settings. I boot up with -c and go through removing devices > that I am not using and changing addresses of conflicting devies. I > save and exit, but the next time I reboot everything is back. These changes are only being recorded when the system goes multi-user. This is accomplished by the (alas undocumented) dset utility that is started from /etc/rc. > I am also getting permission denied when trying to access certain > directories and when trying to create directories. You need to be more specific on this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)