From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 23 15:10:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF02C16A415 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:10:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B90543D46 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:10:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 31004 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2006 15:10:33 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Oct 2006 15:10:33 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 3D2E828433; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:10:33 -0400 (EDT) To: Matthew Pope References: <453B4ACD.1070802@teksavvy.com> <44k62ss7sv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <453C035F.8010401@teksavvy.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:10:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <453C035F.8010401@teksavvy.com> (Matthew Pope's message of "Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:48:47 -0400") Message-ID: <44lkn7ukye.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:10:34 -0000 Matthew Pope writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>Go back through mergemaster, and actually >>pay attention to the changes. On files you haven't modified, you will >>be able to (i)nstall the new versions of those files, but otherwise >>you will need to (m)erge them. >> >> > Ok, I tried that but my system is to far gone. Close to 100 > environment vars are missing and if I jam them all into rc.conf it > will be a mess, especially since I would be guessing at the > appropriate values for the vars. Most of those variables should be in /etc/defaults, which you should never modify on your own. Synch up that directory, and you'll be a long way towards fixed up.