From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 6:36:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2089114D2D for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 1219Lz-0000sK-00; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:36:31 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20893; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:36:31 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:36:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster after upgrade In-Reply-To: <00ad01bf4cec$2f096180$0200000a@danco.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Dan O'Connor wrote: > >My theory is to merge in ALL the new stuff, but to watch carefully for >things in certain files that I have explicitly configured. > >For example, I have all my rc.conf overrides in /etc/rc.conf, so I let >mergemaster happily replace the whole /etc/defaults/rc.conf. But I don't let >it touch /etc/groups or /etc/passwd. Most of the rest of the files need some >scrutiny, to see what changed. And soon enough, you'll figure out which >files you need to really watch closely so you don't blow away your >settings... What about the other /etc directories ? Can i delete those entirely? isdn, kerberos, gnats, mail, etc? I don't use anything from them, that i am aware of. -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message