Keep log_in_vain Value

Matt "Cyber Dog" LaPlante webmaster at cyberdogtech.com
Thu Jun 17 12:23:38 PDT 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:59 PM
> To: Matt "Cyber Dog" LaPlante
> Cc: david at davidfuchs.ca; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Keep log_in_vain Value
> 
> "Matt \"Cyber Dog\" LaPlante" <webmaster at cyberdogtech.com> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Fuchs [mailto:david at davidfuchs.ca]
> > >
> > > Matt "Cyber Dog" LaPlante wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ah, grep saves the day again.  It was being turned on in rc.network.
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > >
> > > You sure it wasn't being turned on in rc.conf instead?  Anything else
> > > would mean that someone was messing with rc.network or
> > > /etc/default/rc.conf, which really should be left alone.
> >
> > I'm positive...there is no log_in_vain entry in rc.conf.  It only
> appears in
> > rc.network, where both tcp and udp were set to 1.
> 
> That's really strange ... is you rc.network customized?  It really
> shouldn't
> be.
> 
> The stock one only sets log_in_vain if /etc/rc.conf tells it to.
> 
> --
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> http://www.potentialtech.com

Couldn't tell you, I didn't build this system.  It got dumped on me when I
took over a sysadmin job.  I guess it's just another checkmark on my list of
really strange things that have been done to this network. :)

-
Matt




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