rc.conf not working

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Michael Goodman wrote:

>I just cvsup'd from 4.9 to 5.2.  After the reboot I noticed that my nics
>weren't configured.  Tried reconfiguring them using /stand/sysinstall
>but no luck.   I tried manually sourcing /etc/rc.conf but nothing
>changes.  I can't find any errors in syslog.  Any ideas?  Thanks
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As root:

#ifconfig rl0 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0

to manually config NIC's.  Use your driver
name/number and correct IP/netmask, of
course.

I've never used it, but I think that

#/bin/sh /etc/netstart

might be the other way ... I'm pretty sure
that using a shell's "source" command isn't
going to do much for you, though...although
I'm often wrong.

Kevin Kinsey