Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:49:50 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /etc files Message-ID: <55E332E4.2070400@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20150830182940.38e81873.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <55E32375.9060804@hiwaay.net> <20150830182940.38e81873.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 08/30/15 11:35, Polytropon wrote:
> 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: :-)
From last nights backup:
[wam@Q6600, ~, 11:46:03am] 1369 % lf /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/*:
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/enabled: /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/fingerprints:
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/mirror_type: /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/signature_type:
[wam@Q6600, ~, 11:46:09am] 1370 % file !$
file /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/*:
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/enabled:: ASCII text
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/fingerprints:: empty
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/mirror_type:: empty
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/signature_type:: empty
[wam@Q6600, ~, 11:46:14am] 1371 % ll !$
ll /home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/*:
-rw-r--r--. 1 wam users 143851520 Sep 3 2014
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/enabled:
-rw-r--r--. 1 wam users 0 Sep 3 2014
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/fingerprints:
-rw-r--r--. 1 wam users 0 Sep 3 2014
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/mirror_type:
-rw-r--r--. 1 wam users 0 Sep 3 2014
/home/rsync/Jaguar/etc/signature_type:
[wam@Q6600, ~, 11:46:20am] 1372 %
I did the mod to freebsd-update.conf & did a fetch, but not an install
(yet), is that required ? I see no /usr/src/etc directory after the
fetch, so I surmise that the update is required, no ? If so, I will do
that from a console login to minimize disturbances to the force, not the
XFCE/rxvt ssh-root-login I currently have open ....
FreeBSD 9.3R-p21, BTW ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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