From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 25 19:33:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BD037BD43 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:33:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20601; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:33:06 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:33:05 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: adduser(8) removes comments from /etc/group - was: Re: minor nit with 4.0-RC2 In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000222011805.00844100@207.227.119.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > >I'm not sure I understand this - sysinstall doesn't install an > >/etc/group file so there's really no "sysinstall version" which is > >distinct from that installed as part of the bindist, at least to my > >knowledge. > > Nevermind. > > Manually extracted etc/group and it has the tag line. > > Must/might be losing it, but then I don't strip the tag lines when I edit > files. 8-/ > > Then again maybe adduser does this. Could start fresh again I suppose and > see what went wrong or if I lose my pilots license. > adduser(8) will remove any comments from /etc/group, including the $FreeBSD tag. Does sysinstall call adduser? -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message