From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 25 12:13:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF98537BC4F for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:13:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA04249; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:13:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <012501bfded9$6f1e7600$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Francisco Reyes" , "David J. Kanter" , "FreeBSD questions" Subject: Re: Mergemaster question Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:13:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Just a quick note on /etc/group >Although rare, there may be instances when a new group is needed >by some new functionality in FreeBSD. >This would probably come up on a "Heads UP" on the lists, but if >one misses it something may not work. > >I treat /etc/group like any other file I change. I do a visual >diff just to see if there is anything new, but usually do >whatever change by hand. I haven't seen any new groups in the 2 years I've been using FreeBSD, but that does make sense. Revise my list to include /etc/group in the "look it over" category... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message