From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 13 14:46:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0447F37B404 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3ACF43E9E for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:46:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021013214645.RLKZ24595.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:46:45 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9DLkiWn090525; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:46:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g9DLkgr8090524; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:46:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to crist.clark@attbi.com using -f Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:46:42 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Trish Lynch Cc: Adrian Wontroba , chris scott , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels Message-ID: <20021013214642.GB90169@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" References: <20021013172810.A19177@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20021013130138.G523-100000@femme.sapphite.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021013130138.G523-100000@femme.sapphite.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:05:27PM -0400, Trish Lynch wrote: > On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Adrian Wontroba wrote: > > > > > Did you run mergemaster or otherwise get /etc/rc.network up to date before rebooting? > > I';ve done something semi-simple to manage things that possibly might get > broken by mergemaster. > > I have a script that backs up critical files (/etc/hosts, > /etc/master.passwd, /etc/group, etc), then runs mergemaster where it > answers "i" to all things, then copies the essential files back. Ewww. That kind of defeats the whole purpose of mergemaster(8). The whole idea is for a human to sit at the console and decide what changes need to be made. With your system, you'll lose any changes to master.passwd or group (like the recent addition of the sshd user/group). (Although I'll admit that changing the hosts file is one that I wouldn't mind skipping everytime.) You might as well just copy your files out of the way, run the make commands mergemaster(8) does, and then move the files back. Mergemaster(8) doesn't really buy you anything the way you are using it. Actually, you probably really should be using the '-a' option to mergemaster(8), and then go back later to see what else you need to update. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message