From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 9 14:27:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5190237B417 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 14:27:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 9 Feb 2002 15:37:05 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 19745408E; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 15:32:29 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Marco Radzinschi , FreeBDS-Questions Subject: Re: Is mergemaster necessary? Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 15:32:29 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020209150719.R4513-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020209150719.R4513-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020209203229.19745408E@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 Saturday 09 February 2002 03:12 pm, Marco Radzinschi wrote: > Hello: > > I just updated this box to 4.5-STABLE by running cvsup and > makeworld. However, when I ran mergemaster, I must have done something > wrong, and I kept getting error messages about "daemon class not found," > and "default class not found." > > I wasn't too happy about this, so I did an "rm -rf /etc" and restored the > backup copy I made. Everything seems to work fine now, with the original > /etc directory from 4.4-RELEASE. > > Do I really have to run mergemaster? Are there any files that MUST be > updated in the /etc directory? I do not want to screw up this box. :-) Well, I'd probably check to see how my files differed from the new ones. Strictly speaking, it's not "necessarily necessary", but your code could get out of sync . . . I'd recommend it. You should be able to run agin now if you didn't clean up the staging area for the install. > > Also, how do I get rid of those annoying "hints" that show up when I log > in? Where is the hints program launching from? Hints don't normally show up with you log in. Is this happening for you at the console mode or are you running X-windows? I'm guessing the latter, in which case it's probably your window manager. > > Thank you, > > Marco Radzinschi > > E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com > AOL IM: CrackedBoy > > Running FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 > 3:07PM up 18:32, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message