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From: pavanas@meridio.ccia.com (pavanas abludo incusus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Is this a Feature or a Bug?
Date: 8 Jul 1997 16:47:13 GMT
Organization: Aragorn Asteria
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Message-ID: <slrn5s4rnu.ms.pavanas@meridio.ccia.com>
Reply-To: pavanas@bbs.mpcs.com
Keywords: Education, Entertainment
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Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44115

Thus far FreeBSD is the most entertaining and educational O/S. But last
night I was treated to an unexpected thrill.

Is this a bug or a feature? I  rebooted after about a week up and the
kernel announces itself `amnesiac'. What does this mean and why has it
occurred?

A quick scan of the error messages at boot indicated a look into rc.conf.
Upon listing the files in /etc a few items stuck way out

total 2077
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel    831601 Jul  8 06:26 rc.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel    325242 Jul  7 21:40 rc.conf.previous

below is a sample of of rc.conf.previous. rc.conf was just more of the
same. The file itself was not neatly tabulated (this was done to post),
but was one big run-on line.
 
I have no idea by what or why these files were modifed. Suffice to
say that is irrelevant at this point, but what to do to prevent a
re-occurance is quite relevant. And a current check reveals rc.conf has
grown from 6,305 to 50,280 since 8-JUL-97 10:36 EDT. OK, no big deal until
I try to re-boot. nice feature, eh? meanwhile I re-copied from a backup
file and chmod -w rc.conf.
 
Anyone have any suggestions?

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#!/bin/sh
#

# This is rc.conf - a file full of useful variables that you can set 
# to change the default startup behavior of your system.
#
# All arguments must be in double or single quotes.
#
#	$Id: rc.conf,v 1.1.2.9 1997/05/13 08:27:49 jkh Exp $

##############################################################
### Important initial Boot-time options  #####################
##############################################################

swapfile="NO"	# Set to name of swapfile if aux swapfile desired."
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