From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 22:48:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C117737B400; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:48:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (h24-71-223-10.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4760743E42; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from desmond.lee@shaw.ca) Received: from pd5mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.168]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0G00BCALHDEA@l-daemon>; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 23:48:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml5so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.149]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0G00278LHDBO@l-daemon>; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 23:48:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from wetworks (h24-77-108-85.vc.shawcable.net [24.77.108.85]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with SMTP id <0H0G008KXLHBKD@l-daemon>; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 23:48:49 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:52:10 -0700 From: Desmond Lee Subject: RE: some questions about upgrade and /etc/ files In-reply-to: <3D50B032.75869FF4@pantherdragon.org> To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-questions , scott@bsdprophet.org, kstewart@owt.com, grog@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 Hey Darren >So, download the original 4.4-R files and put them in /etc. There are >some files you should leave untouched. Namely fstab, rc.conf, >resolv.conf, and your rebuilt master.passwd and group files. Once >you've done that, go through the make world process, running >`mergemaster -p` before the buildworld again just to double check that >the crucial files are sane enough for a make world. Oh man... i should have waited another 30 mins before just copying over the files i just got into the /etc/ dir. Oh well, i guess it's okay... i didn't change the /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd files though. >Does that make a bit more sense now? yes... this makes way more sense. You rock :) Thanks for all your help and patience Desmond To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message