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Date:      Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:29:01 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk>
Subject:   Re: A smarter mergemaster
Message-ID:  <200510010029.22358.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <433D49BD.4070402@ashleymoran.me.uk>
References:  <20050929224548.GB3035@comp.chem.msu.su> <200509302327.00537.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <433D49BD.4070402@ashleymoran.me.uk>

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On Friday 30 September 2005 23:50, Ashley Moran wrote:
> Unfortunately it seems that config files for the subsystems (eg SSH) are
> stored separately in the CVS tree and I didn't have time to work out
> where they live.

The trick is to get the system to build you an /etc - see how mergemaster d=
oes=20
it (runs make in the right place basically)

> While we're on the subject, how do you handle the DB files?  I don't see
> any special mention of them in the man pages.  When I last etcmerged I
> glossed over them and haven't had any login problems since.

=46or passwd stuff I merge /etc/master.passwd and then run cap_mkdb to rebu=
ild=20
the other 3 files based on it.

Also run newaliases when aliases are touched, and cap_mkdb for login.conf.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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