From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 27 13:38:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA14020 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14010 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.com (tom@shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01618 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tom@localhost) by shell.uniserve.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA08863; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:32:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.uniserve.com: tom owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:32:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Peter Svaar cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading /etc In-Reply-To: <199706271913.VAA25646@cray.svaar.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Peter Svaar wrote: > > Hi, > > I've had FreeBSD running since 2.1.5 and I have regularly CVSup'ed my way to > a recent 2.2-STABLE which I am running now. > > The problem is that the /etc/ files have not been changed on the way, and, > well, it works as it is but I *should* have upgraded /etc to 2.2 as well. > How can I do this? > > Thanx > > -- > - peter svaar - phone 22 69 59 94 - URL: http://www.svaar.no/ - > - peter@svaar.no - pager 96 76 83 83 - hackers do it with fewer instructions - > While people on the lists make a big deal about upgrading /etc, it seems like a lot of punishment for nothing. 2.2 will happily boot with /etc/ from 2.1. Some features may not be accessible, but if your previous system was working well, who cares? Tom