From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 10 22:54:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF59137B407 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DougBarton.net (db-cvad-2-tmp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.243]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472D28B5B7; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BC5342F.413C942C@DougBarton.net> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:54:55 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Kelly Cc: Mit Rowe , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: /etc/mail/mailer.conf References: <20011009160758.A98953@edgemaster.zombie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Kelly wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:50:48AM -0400, Mit Rowe wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Was wondering... is it really necessary for mergemaster to check > > /etc/mail/mailer.conf? Can't we have /etc/mail/mailer.conf.sample or > > something similar instead? > > Same for the group and passwd files. We can't put training wheels on everything. If you don't trust yourself not to accidentally overwrite those files, create a mergemaster MM_PRE_COMPARE_SCRIPT script that deletes them from the temp root so you can't make any mistakes. Good luck, Doug -- "We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail." - George W. Bush, President of the United States September 20, 2001 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message