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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: reyes01@ibm.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: New Kernel removed all settings and deleted users!! Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:44:14 GMT Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4vfvve$f38@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Reply-To: reyes01@ibm.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip166-72-219-107.ny.us.ibm.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Today I installed 2.1.5 at work. I created a few users and set up the networking configuration (DNS server etc...) I created a new kernel and it went OK. When I rebooted the users were gone and the computer lost its configuration (ie the computer name is not the prompt anymore but the default) I don't mind much that I lost the settings, but I would like to know what files I need to copy before I do a new kernel. It would also be nice if the documentation mentioned this behavior The user directories and still there, but when I couldn't log in with a user different from root I did vipw and all the users I had added where gone.