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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Oh NO! don't know how i did that...:( Date: 19 Jul 1997 05:06:30 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5qpi0m$kn2$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <33CE708B.58F9@linex.com> <33D0437C.7376@cybernw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961126] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44647 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc james ruby <jamesr@cybernw.com> wrote: > phong nguyen wrote: > > > > Helo, > > I am a newbie to Freebsd, I had just lost all the inofrmation in the > > file "sysconfig". When i try to emacs sysconfig this file display blank > > no data in it and the file size only 37bytes. What had happen here? Can > > any one help me to get this file back. Also when it boot up it was > > replace by "rc.conf". > > thank > > pn > In version 2.2.2 I beleive that the rc.conf file is used instead of the > sysconfig file. I do not beleive that the sysconfig file is needed or > even used. > James My experience with 2.2.2S is that if sysconfig is there, it will be read instead of rc.conf, and a message suggesting switching to rc.conf will be displayed. This switch can be accomplished by renaming sysconfig, so all pn has to do is mv sysconfig sysconfig.old. I suppose, though, that what happens depends partly on how one upgrades. Annelise