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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!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New Kernel removed all settings and deleted users!! Date: 23 Aug 1996 21:43:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4vl8mp$6s8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4vfvve$f38@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E reyes01@ibm.net wrote: > 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 Well, it should not be documented :), since it is not intended behaviour. Since several hundred new kernels are being built each day, but you are the first one reporting this, i rather suspect that it has been another problem at all. It looks like you've destroyed quite some files in your /etc directory one way or the other. -- 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. ;-)