> Michael Richardson writes:
>
>> Was the corefile from hostname called /etc/hostname.core?
>> 
>> If so, netstart would have tried to read it and ifconfig the
>> interface "core" up, with the contents of the file.
>
> Oh dear oh dear ... That's *really* evil.  ;-)
>
> I'll bet that's it too, I did rm that useless corefile.  Ten points to you,
> sir.  Wonder why it dumped in the first place ...

Hmmn ...

    set -- `echo /etc/hostname*`

Does anyone know of any NetBSD interface that *isn't* numbered?

Otherwise /etc/netstart could just use

    set -- `echo /etc/hostname.*[0-9]`

instead ...

	- Greg