From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 18 15:20:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA15422 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-132.anchorage.net [207.14.72.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA15411 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (abc@localhost) by aak.anchorage.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA02636; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:09:09 -0800 (AKDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aak.anchorage.net: abc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:09:08 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Josef Karthauser cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to update /etc like sysinstall In-Reply-To: <19970618151355.17515@pavilion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > I am searching for the method to update the /etc like sysinstall does it. > > sysinstall just tells me all the files it cannot update automatically and > > automatically updates the rest. Is this mechanism somehow accessible from > > the Makefiles in the source tree? I have to update 8 machines and it would > > make life a lot easier if I had access to that mechanism. i'm not sure i'd trust a script to create a new /etc. you can get away with using your old /etc for the most part anyway. i've seen code in current /etc rc scripts that will warn you if you are missing something new or need to change something since the last /etc versions. write a little sh script that backs up the important /etc files, and then compare them with a new /etc. you shouldn't have to make more than a couple of changes, and they should all be the same for all 8 machines. ------------------------------------------------- FingerPrint BA09868C 1B995204 58410FD3 A5E7B2DA http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/way/7747 -------------------------------------------------