From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jul 3 15:53:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mailrouter1.strath.ac.uk (orkney.cc.strath.ac.uk [130.159.248.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756E737B50C for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:52:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [62.252.137.7] (helo=cs.strath.ac.uk) by mailrouter1.strath.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 139F4g-0005Xf-00 for small@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2000 23:52:23 +0100 Message-ID: <39611949.802B9826@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 23:52:57 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: Strathclyde University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc rc commit breaks PicoBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RBL-Warning: (dul.maps.vix.com) See Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Roger wrote: >When I boot with a 3.5-stable 'Dial' floppy, I get this message > > gzip: login.conf already exists: do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? > gzip: rc already exists: do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? > > ..snip.. > OR > Can we simply rename 'rc' and 'login.conf' in /etc (or even delete > them) before we overwrite them? Well, it appears we can safely delete 'rc' and 'login.conf' just prior to extracting the gziped /etc files. I've tested this with 'bridge' and 'dial' and they both worked. No more do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? messages in 'dial' So, I've committed the change to FreeBSD 3.5-stable's PicoBSD. Roger -- Roger Hardiman Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Research Group, Glasgow, Scotland. http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk 0141 548 2897 roger@cs.strath.ac.uk roger@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message