From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 24 13:34: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C11158EF for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:34:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991224213155.SCPA7552.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@main.wgaf.net> for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:31:55 -0800 Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 121cLa-000198-00; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 16:34:02 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world /etc update References: <19991224.21204000@mammalia.sea> X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 24 Dec 1999 16:34:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: Joseph Wright's message of "Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:20:40 GMT" Message-ID: <87ln6k6n1x.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph Wright writes: > I recently updated all my sources with -stable, then I did make world > in the /usr/src directory. Later I learned that I must update the > /etc directory by hand. How do I do this, and why? All my > configuration files are unchanged. I'm running 3.4-RELEASE. Thanks > in advance, Joseph Wright. Handbook's section 18.4.6 explains both "why" and "how". In short, you need to do it because from release to release there might appear new or updated files in /etc; diff is your friend. -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message