Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:21:51 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailer.conf zapped Message-ID: <20000720162151.E31268@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <20000720161024.A580@linnet.org>; from B.Candler@pobox.com on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:10:24PM %2B0100 References: <20000720154522.A399@linnet.org> <20000720165019.A55399@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000720161024.A580@linnet.org>
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:10:24PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:50:19PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > How did you "update" your /etc files? > > Well, firstly I just used the kern/mfsroot floppies and selected 'Upgrade' > from sysinstall. After rebooting, I did > > cd /etc > for i in *; do diff -u $i upgrade/$i; done > > then manually did 'mv upgrade/xxx .' where it looked sensible to do so. I > only did a handful though, so it looked like the upgrade process had done > most of the work already. > > Since I used 'mv', then everything left in /etc/upgrade/ is a file which I > _didn't_ manually update: > > # ls /etc/upgrade/ > XF86Config dm.conf hosts.lpd networks rmt > adduser.conf dumpdates kerberosIV newsyslog.conf shells > aliases fbtab localtime pam.conf skeykeys > aliases.db fstab login.access passwd spwd.db > amd.map ftpusers mail.rc periodic syslog.conf > auth.conf gettytab make.conf ppp ttys > crontab gnats manpath.config printcap uucp > csh.cshrc group master.passwd profile > csh.login host.conf modems pwd.db > csh.logout hosts motd remote > disktab hosts.equiv namedb resolv.conf > > (in most cases because it was the identical to the file I already had, or in > the case of group or master.passwd because the only differences were the > changes I had made myself) > > But it's certainly possible there was some operator error - I am a bit > jet-lagged at the moment :-) As far as I remember the recommended way of doing this is to run mergemaster which makes things a *lot* easier :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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