From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 16:35:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F60116A4CE for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:35:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD1C43D39 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:35:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (c-24-130-160-161.we.client2.attbi.com[24.130.160.161]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <200402020035330150017905e> (Authid: domain_name_tsar); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 00:35:34 +0000 Message-ID: <401D9B55.4040606@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:35:33 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.8.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: No longer necessary to 'rm /etc/rc.d/*' X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:35:35 -0000 Howdy, In order to keep /etc/rc.d up to date, it was frequently recommended to do 'rm /etc/rc.d/* ; mergemaster -i'. As of 4 January this year it's not only no longer necessary to do that, it's not a good idea to do it. mergemaster now notifies you of stale files in /etc/rc.d, but the part of the script that does that will do funny things if you remove all the files first. FYI, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection