gateway NAT settings lost

[Mel]

On Saturday 27 September 2008 11:56:16 Colin Brace wrote:
> Mel-15 wrote:
> > The obvious a file in /, possibly a core dump.
> > The less obvious, an open but deleted file.
> > Even less obvious, a file in /tmp created in single user mode, without
> > /tmp
> > mounted.
> > My money is on option 2:
> > fstat -f / |sort -rnk 8|head
>
> OK, here is what that returns:
>
> $ sudo fstat -f / |sort -rnk 8|head
> root     init           1 text /         16492 -r-xr-xr-x  599320  r
> root     devd         618 text /         16467 -r-xr-xr-x  334060  r
> root     dhclient    1192 text /         16469 -r-xr-xr-x   74172  r
> _dhcp    dhclient    1231 text /         16469 -r-xr-xr-x   74172  r
> root     fstat      78768    5 /         49687 -rw-------   40960  r
> root     pflogd       478 text /         16527 -r-xr-xr-x   18716  r
> _pflogd  pflogd       481 text /         16527 -r-xr-xr-x   18716  r
> root     adjkerntz    136 text /         16457 -r-xr-xr-x    7244  r
> www      php-cgi    69281 root /             2 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
> www      php-cgi     1122 root /             2 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
>
> Do you see anything that looks unusual?

Nope, and of course not, since it persists over reboot. It must be a directory 
you're not searching, maybe a dot directory.
Best run *in single user mode*, with only / mounted:
cd /
du -h -d1 .

> There is a tutorial here
> <http://www.tutorialhero.com/click-42879-moving_freebsd_to_a_new_hard_drive
>.php> which explains how to do this using dump and restore. Just curious:
> why is this preferable to using plain old cp?

Because cp:
- will copy foo/bar to dest/oops/bar if dest/foo is a symlink to dest/oops.
- does not copy hard links, but both 'files'
- cannot make consistent snapshots of a partition
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.