Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:29:40 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /etc files Message-ID: <20150830182940.38e81873.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <55E32375.9060804@hiwaay.net> References: <55E32375.9060804@hiwaay.net>
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On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 10:43:59 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > I notice several files in my /etc directory whose filenames end in ':'. > Are these system files ? If not, can I usefully delete them :-) ? TIA & > have aq nice weekend. Never heared of those... can you provide an example? Maybe some timestamped backup files? But who would store them in /etc? And why should they end in ':'? Aside of file names, what do those files contain? Can you show or tell? And what are their creation timestamps? As it has been suggested, add the "src" component in /etc/freebsd-update.conf and fetch+install it, then compare to /usr/src/etc, which is the "template" from which /etc will be generated. To summarize: Files ending in ':' probably do not belong to /etc. COM1: :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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