From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 14:59:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71B916A41F for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:59:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BA543D4C for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:59:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp219-232.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.219.232]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8UExXwt038279 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:29:39 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:29:01 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050929224548.GB3035@comp.chem.msu.su> <200509302327.00537.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <433D49BD.4070402@ashleymoran.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <433D49BD.4070402@ashleymoran.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7096081.219UU85ohi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510010029.22358.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Ashley Moran Subject: Re: A smarter mergemaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:59:46 -0000 --nextPart7096081.219UU85ohi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 30 September 2005 23:50, Ashley Moran wrote: > Unfortunately it seems that config files for the subsystems (eg SSH) are > stored separately in the CVS tree and I didn't have time to work out > where they live. The trick is to get the system to build you an /etc - see how mergemaster d= oes=20 it (runs make in the right place basically) > While we're on the subject, how do you handle the DB files? I don't see > any special mention of them in the man pages. When I last etcmerged I > glossed over them and haven't had any login problems since. =46or passwd stuff I merge /etc/master.passwd and then run cap_mkdb to rebu= ild=20 the other 3 files based on it. Also run newaliases when aliases are touched, and cap_mkdb for login.conf. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart7096081.219UU85ohi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDPVLK5ZPcIHs/zowRAveLAJ9lh3TOnif1gN0nrEOpBErJwq8qMACfV5j6 S9yi2G+OSDAs+HfPbyPgIEc= =CX6w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7096081.219UU85ohi--