From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 22 19:21:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3859816A409 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:21:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from mx1.netclusive.de (mx1.netclusive.de [89.110.132.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05FB13C4C3 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:21:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (p3EE22B71.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.226.43.113]) by mx1.netclusive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BFADE8045 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:21:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id 58B3915213; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:21:44 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:21:44 +0100 (CET) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <61775.192.168.11.7.1169489724.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: garfield.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1169493704 62249 192.168.100.11 (22 Jan 2007 19:21:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:21:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: /etc problems when upgrading to FBSD 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:21:47 -0000 On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:15:24 +0100 (CET) Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > My question is what I messed up? Was this something during mergemaster > phase? If not, then what else could have gone wrong? Yes, you probably messed up there. Mergemaster shows you - I'll call them suggestions - for the config files. Look at them and look at what the changes would be. '+' means this line will be added, '-' means this line will be removed, using your current config as reference. Installing all the new config files without even looking at them can be ugly. I didn't watch out once an lost groups, users and a few other things. It is usually safe to just install the new versions of files that you haven't changed, but look at those files that you have changed. The 'm' stands for 'merge' which means you are presented both the old an the new version. And for each line that is different you can choose whether to stick to the old version or to adopt the new one. This way you create a completely new file that is up to date while still containing the changes you need for your system. Regards Chris