From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 23 18:06:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA27815 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acromail.ml.org (acroal.vip.best.com [206.86.222.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA27804 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kernel@localhost) by acromail.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA01444; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:06:52 -0700 (PDT) From: FreeBSD Technical Reader To: John Polstra cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf In-Reply-To: <199707231552.IAA15201@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I should of also mentioned that this seems to happen after a make world, that is why I was cvsupping in the first place. On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, John Polstra wrote: > > >> Has anyone noticed there rc.conf file mysteriously getting bigger after > > >> doing cvsups to stable. Seems that I have a 600k file and comments are > > >> being tagged onto the ends of the lines to form _very_ long lines, it > > >> still works though. > > > > > > > I have the same problem. Didn't think of it beeing cvsup, but it could very > > well be so. I set the mode to r--r--r-- for the time beeing. For your info; > > I only cvsup the ports collection. > > Sheesh. Come on, you guys -- make an effort, will ya?! > > 1. CVSup doesn't touch the /etc directory. > > 2. CVSup verifies the MD5 checksum of every file that it updates. > > 3. CVSup doesn't have a history of corrupting people's files. > > 4. On the other hand, there is a history of pure speculation similar > to this thread, which only fuels more such nonsense, thank you > very much. > > 5. If you really thought it was a CVSup bug, then why didn't you > report it to cvsup-bugs@polstra.com? > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth >