Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 03:24:32 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Forrest" <praxis@techpraxis.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.3Beta, Jim Durham, Matt Emmerton, Mike Meyer, Kris Kennaway,etc. Message-ID: <003a01c0a93b$8931a2b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <B6CF1973.1AFB%praxis@techpraxis.com>
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> Thanks Jim and Mike: Fixed 50% of my problems: after reading your posts, I > thought maybe looking at the source would help, indeed it did. I ran diff > /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf with the /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and discovered > [duh!] that most of my important settings had been hosed in the merge > differences operation. Are you making your site-specific changes in /etc/defaults/rc.conf? If you are, you shouldn't. You should only be modifying (or adding) the appropriate overrides to the defaults in /etc/rc.conf, and leaving the defaults file alone. mergemaster doesn't examine rc.conf (since it's site-specific) and that way you'll never overwrite your site configuration during an upgrade, even though the defaults may change. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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