From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 16 15:30:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7807D37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail3.alcanet.com.au [208.178.117.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA0943E6A for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: from sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alcanet.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.4/Alcanet1.3) with ESMTP id g9GMU5VG021544; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:30:05 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au ([139.188.20.247]) by sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.11) with ESMTP id 2002101708300505:61175 ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:30:05 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9GMU4eT036044; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:30:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9GMU4kr036043; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:30:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:30:04 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mergemaster [was: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels] Message-ID: <20021016223004.GI32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <004401c2742a$d6169d90$6501a8c0@VAIO650> <3DAC0045.4060201@Kernick.org> <3DAC163D.1060701@inode.at> <20021016193422.A51167@raven.addict.de> <20021016213038.GH32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <200210162219.g9GMJYEt017521@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200210162219.g9GMJYEt017521@apollo.backplane.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on SYDSMTP01/AlcatelAustralia(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 17/10/2002 08:30:05 AM, Serialize by Router on SYDSMTP01/AlcatelAustralia(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 17/10/2002 08:30:05 AM, Serialize complete at 17/10/2002 08:30:05 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 On 2002-Oct-16 15:19:34 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > This is not correct. As long as the changes to the /etc/rc* files > are synchronized with the changes to /etc/defaults/*, the expected > behavior (at least as close as it is possible to get) will be > maintained. That's the whole point. I agree. My concern was that Juergen was suggesting that mergemaster invisibly update /etc/defaults/rc.conf - which could easily cause problems when the sysadmin fails to notice that he needs to make corresponding changes to his /etc/rc.conf. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message