Just updated to 5.3-BETA7 -couple nits

Kim Culhan w8hdkim at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 5 10:00:06 PDT 2004


--- Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:33:20AM -0700, Kim Culhan wrote:
> > 
> > >From the couple small nits dept..
> > 
> > After running mergemaster and rebooting, the boot hung with:
> > 
> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf: 517: Syntax error: EOF in backquote
> > substitution
> > 
> > rc.conf had only 516 lines soo.. was there an embedded
> > EOF char in the file not visible with vi ?
> > 
> > Installed a previous rc.conf, including the diffs from
> > the beta7 rc.conf: rc.conf,v 1.212.2.2 and all is well.
> > 
> Maybe mergemaster(8) did something bad for you, but it's
> really hard to say without having a look at problematic
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf.

Ok, the problematic rc.conf is attached as rc.conf.new
 
> > There is no startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d nor
> > anything in /etc/rc.conf to start postfix, or anything
> > in /etc/rc.local soo.. how can it start ?
> > 
> See mailer.conf(5).

There is nothing in mailer.conf(5) regarding the startup of
[your favorite] mail server on boot that I can see..

This is with sources cvsup'd 10-4-04 at ~1600 utc

tnx
-kim


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