Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:19:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: beating mergemaster to /etc/rc.d Message-ID: <20041013101825.B19494-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <16749.21420.643438.983797@ran.psg.com>
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Randy Bush wrote: > i know that when i do a mergemaster, i am about to see 666 updates > to /etc/rc.d/*, to each of which i will have to type "qi<eol>". > as it will be over a 9600 baud remote serial console, this is a > pita and causes undue delay for the users. > > once i boot the new kernel -sw, is it safe to > > cp /usr/src/etc/rc.d/* /etc/rc.d > > and then run mergemaster -cvi? Wouldn't it be easier to just rm /etc/rc.d/*? That's what I do before running mergemaster with the -i flag, and it installs everything in rc.d without prompting. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
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