From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 11:25:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web.sitecontent.com (adsl-216-101-253-45.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.101.253.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A9C37B403 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:25:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by web.sitecontent.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f9GIO9v02179; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fallous@warped.com) Message-Id: <200110161824.f9GIO9v02179@web.sitecontent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: fallous To: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: So lets say you *didnt* use mergemaster... Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:24:08 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011016143622.2160137B403@hub.freebsd.org> <20011016130009.B33631@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20011016130009.B33631@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 16 October 2001 11:00 am, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 16), Aaron said: > > Ignorance is bliss isnt it? > > > > I've noticed that just about any FreeBSD user I talk to uses > > mergemaster after building the world. Well I didnt. And it works fine > > [its a HLDS server] but this has me worried. What log term effects > > will my stupidity have? I know mergemaster updates config files - but > > this server has only a few things changed from the default, so should > > I just go for it now? > > If you don't use Mergemester, your /etc will never get updated. On > STABLE this isn't too much of a problem, as you simply won't get > enhancements that are made to startup scripts, etc. On -CURRENT, it > could cause your system to not boot correctly if binaries have changed > location and /etc/rc.* is still looking for them in the old places. on a related note, if you do use mergemaster make sure you go in and examine the updated files. I got bit on 3 machines due to a change in /etc/defaults/rc.conf that defaults to turning off sendmail for sending mail outside the machine (can I just mention what an idiotic default that is?). Jay Goodwin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message