From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 11: 0:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A478837B40A for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9GI0BR92165; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:00:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:00:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Aaron Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So lets say you *didnt* use mergemaster... Message-ID: <20011016130009.B33631@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20011016143622.2160137B403@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011016143622.2160137B403@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 16), Aaron said: > Ignorance is bliss isnt it? > > I've noticed that just about any FreeBSD user I talk to uses > mergemaster after building the world. Well I didnt. And it works fine > [its a HLDS server] but this has me worried. What log term effects > will my stupidity have? I know mergemaster updates config files - but > this server has only a few things changed from the default, so should > I just go for it now? If you don't use Mergemester, your /etc will never get updated. On STABLE this isn't too much of a problem, as you simply won't get enhancements that are made to startup scripts, etc. On -CURRENT, it could cause your system to not boot correctly if binaries have changed location and /etc/rc.* is still looking for them in the old places. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message