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To: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us>
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Subject: Re: 3.0-SNAP/rc.stuff 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> rc.conf(?)."  Now that I have this on my system I am anxiously awaiting
> the rc.conf(?) manpage.

Yep, on the way - I'm composing it in another buffer as we speak. ;-)

> alot more changes than I expected.  When I did an upgrade to 2.1.6 from
> 2.1.0, it told me which files i would probably have to fix by hand and let
> me know it didn't do anything to it.  I was impressed by how well the
> install/upgrade took care of things and thought it was taking care of
> things, but I think a warning that "XXX files might possible need to be
> checked" before continuing would be in order.  files I had to change were:

That's mostly the result of the rc.conf change - before then, the
migration process was fairly straight-forward (yeah yeah, I know, Paul ;-)
and now I have to take special steps to migrate /etc/sysconfig to
/etc/rc.conf.  It's not actually that hard and I'll be working on
it, just as soon as some more decisions about rc.conf's final format are
made.

					Jordan