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From: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is this a Feature or a Bug?
Date: 16 Jul 1997 10:40:03 +1200
Organization: Pinnacle Software Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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In <slrn5s4rnu.ms.pavanas@meridio.ccia.com> pavanas@meridio.ccia.com (pavanas abludo incusus) writes:
>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?
There's a bug in sysinstall that causes the behaviour noted. First
noticed it when I tried to add additional source distributions
post-install.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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