[SOLVED] I deleted my rc.conf.

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Hello all,
Well, I am a genius. Or perhaps not....... I just deleted my '/etc/rc.conf' on accident. I meant to remove a different file, but I had been editing '/etc/rc.conf' a lot that night. So when I did a 'sudo rm', '/etc/rc.conf' was what I typed. I finally found a basic backup of it and used that. I even got my internet back to working.
I realize that none of that is relevant. My question is:
Is there some easy way to get all the modules and daemons back in there? I don't know what all modules and daemons where there before, so I don't know which ones to put back in there. I was hoping that there was some neat trick to scan for what modules and daemons that I need in '/etc/rc.conf' and put them there. Any chance of that?
Any advice to help me get out of this mess would be greatly appreciated. I may even put some thought into what I delete next time.
Also the backup of '/etc/rc.conf' was named '/etc/rc.conf.pacnew'. And I also noticed that in Midnight Commander all the backup files have a '*' before them. So '/etc/rc.conf.pacnew' appeared as '*rc.conf.pacnew'. However, I renamed it 'rc.conf.backup' before thinking that perhaps it needs to be '*rc.conf.pacnew' in order for the fallback kernel to use it. Is this the case? If so how do I get the '*' back in the name? Because now that I renamed it back to 'rc.conf.pacnew' is doesn't have the '*' before it.
I would think that since the fallback kernel would boot and the regular one would not, then the fallback must use that backup file. I would also think that that file would have to have a certain name in order to be found. If not, that is great, but if so, I need to get it renamed properly. Thanks.
Last edited by The Avatar of Time (2008-05-30 16:46:44)

Answer 1

The Avatar of Time wrote:
bangkok_manouel wrote:
run:
hwdetect --modules
Thanks for the reply. I ran 'hwdetect --modules' and got:
bash-3.2$ hwdetect --modules
MODULES=(button dock processor thermal cdrom lp ppdev firewire-core firewire-ohci hid usbhid k8temp i2c-algo-bit i2c-nforce2 i2c-core evdev ff-memless joydev pcspkr psmouse serio_raw tda18271 tda827x xc5000 cx2341x cx25840 ivtv mt20xx tda8290 tda9887 tea5761 tea5767 tuner-simple tuner-xc2028 tuner tveeprom v4l1-compat v4l2-common videodev wm8775 lirc_dev lirc_mceusb2 parport parport_pc pci_hotplug shpchp rtc-cmos rtc-core rtc-lib nvidia crc-itu-t snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore pata_acpi pata_amd ata_generic scsi_mod sata_nv sata_sil24 forcedeth ppp_generic slhc usb-storage usbhid usbcore ehci-hcd ohci-hcd firewire-core firewire-ohci ieee1394 ohci1394 sd_mod sr_mod)
So do I just copy all that and put it in my '/etc/rc.conf'? That seems like way more modules than used to be in there, but that is fine. What about the daemons though? Thanks.
check hwdetect --help
IIRC, former installer used (i may be wrong but anyway, no big deal):
hwdetect --sound
hwdetect --net
edit: typos
Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2008-05-29 15:31:57)