Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:45:23 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No longer necessary to 'rm /etc/rc.d/*' Message-ID: <xzpk736c73w.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <401D9B55.4040606@FreeBSD.org> (Doug Barton's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:35:33 -0800") References: <401D9B55.4040606@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> writes: > 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. It shouldn't do funny things. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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