hi manuel..

you are right - dev_mkdb is not being run. running it by hand solved the 
problem of ps. however, i am unsure how it should be included in rc.conf or 
defaults/rc.conf

i tried
dev_mkdb=YES
but that had no effect so i tried 
dev_mkdb
that had the effect of shutting me out entirely after reboot. all connection 
attempts are refused. i cant get back to the console until monday. i found the 
command in the /etc/rc on my classic at home which is still running 1.4.2.

has /etc/rc become part of /etc/defaults/rc.conf in 1.5? well i'll have a 
closer look at this on monday. thanks for you help.

GREG

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:25:31AM +0000, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:
> > decided to do a clean install of 1.5 on a sparc classic. no problems, went 
> > very smoothly but for some reason i ended up with a very minimal /etc/rc.conf 
> > so i decided to merge one in from another classic running 1.4.2 (this may be 
> > completely unrelated to the problem by the way!) so now i have a few useful 
> > deamons (demons? i never know) running like screenblank etc.
> 
> Did you keep the include of /etc/default/rc.conf at top of it ?
> dev_mkdb should be run at startup, I think ...
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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