Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 09:20:24 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Thanjee Neefam <thanjee@fastmail.fm> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world issue Message-ID: <20030705162024.GC71950@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20030705094922.5E5C56EC81@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> References: <20030703235342.D4C9E37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <20030705094922.5E5C56EC81@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com>
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On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:49:22AM -0800 or thereabouts, Thanjee Neefam wrote: > I was playing around with one of my machines (non mission-critical - > mainly used for experimenting) and I decided to try updating my sources. > I am running 5.0r. I didn't have any sources on my machine (other than > kernel) so I used /stand/sysinstall to add all sources. I then used cvsup > with the standard-supfile to update all sources. I then did a make world, > make kernel and rebooted. > > When I logged back in again, root no longer had a password, my users were > gone, and other settings were reset such as the ppp.conf and ttys. Other > settings like X11/XF86Config were fine. Now I can slowly fix all the > mixing parts and reedit conf files, but I would just like to know why > most of them were reset? > I think the reason it broke was because /stand/sysinstall overwrote my > config files when I added all sources. Is this assumption correct? NO. /stand/sysinstall is quite careful about not overwriting your config files. > Or did > I perhaps lose them at a later stage? Is there someway for this not to > happen in the future? You did not read /usr/src/UPDATING. Read the procedure, ALL of it. I think you forgot to run `mergemaster', or you just said "overwrite everything". -- Josh > > Cheers, > Thanjee > > /////////// thanjee@fastmail.fm \\\\\\\\\\\ > AAFE Audio, Amiga and FreeBSD Enthusiast :p > \\\\\\\\\ http://www.fastmail.fm ////////// > /////////// thanjee@fastmail.fm \\\\\\\\\\\ > AAFE Audio, Amiga and FreeBSD Enthusiast :p > \\\\\\\\\ http://www.fastmail.fm ////////// > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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