From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 11:30:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA6C37B40B; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA42405; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:28:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Robert L Sowders Cc: Christopher Smith , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Robert L Sowders wrote: > I not sure I'm following your thoughts here, I thought the > /etc/defaults/rc.conf should never be modified by the user and > /etc/rc.conf is not touched by mergemaster so I don't really see how it > applies here. > You should install the new /etc/defaults/rc.conf from /usr/src/etc when you do the merge, whether by hand or via mergemaster. It may be necessary for you to make some changes to /etc/rc.conf as a result of those changes. But I agree that this is one of the installations that could be automatic. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message