From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 25 22:31:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from greg.cex.ca (h24-207-40-244.dlt.dccnet.com [24.207.40.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77D2D37B409 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gregw-freebsd-stable@greg.cex.ca) Received: (qmail 80908 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Jul 2001 05:33:50 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:33:50 -0700 From: Greg White To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not updating /etc Message-ID: <20010725223350.M71986@greg.cex.ca> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <003601c1154c$7240ed40$de48a93f@shawn> <3B5F34B0.BF32DF9D@herbelot.com> <009001c11593$0e718120$de48a93f@shawn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <009001c11593$0e718120$de48a93f@shawn>; from shawn@megadeth.org on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:23:08PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:23:08PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > Well, seeing as to how easy it is with mergemaster, there isn't really any > reason not to. But wouldn't the system just boot like whatever I was > previosly running? I don't see why it would hurt to leave it alone if one > wanted to, but then again what do I know. :) There have been at least two occasions for me when a failure to run mergemaster would have resulted in an unusable system. I'm positive that the first one was when an option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config was deprecated, and sshd would fail to load if the deprecated option was present. Without mergemaster, this would have left my remote machine dead in the water. ISTR that the other time was ssh as well, changes to /etc/pam.conf... Mostly, it seems to be safe not to, but I never take chances. At least always run it, and see what the changes are... -- Greg White To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message