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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:10:24 +0100
From:      Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mailer.conf zapped
Message-ID:  <20000720161024.A580@linnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000720165019.A55399@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:50:19PM %2B0200
References:  <20000720154522.A399@linnet.org> <20000720165019.A55399@mithrandr.moria.org>

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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:50:19PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> How did you "update" your /etc files?

Well, firstly I just used the kern/mfsroot floppies and selected 'Upgrade'
from sysinstall. After rebooting, I did

cd /etc
for i in *; do diff -u $i upgrade/$i; done

then manually did 'mv upgrade/xxx .' where it looked sensible to do so. I
only did a handful though, so it looked like the upgrade process had done
most of the work already.

Since I used 'mv', then everything left in /etc/upgrade/ is a file which I
_didn't_ manually update:

# ls /etc/upgrade/
XF86Config      dm.conf         hosts.lpd       networks        rmt
adduser.conf    dumpdates       kerberosIV      newsyslog.conf  shells
aliases         fbtab           localtime       pam.conf        skeykeys
aliases.db      fstab           login.access    passwd          spwd.db
amd.map         ftpusers        mail.rc         periodic        syslog.conf
auth.conf       gettytab        make.conf       ppp             ttys
crontab         gnats           manpath.config  printcap        uucp
csh.cshrc       group           master.passwd   profile
csh.login       host.conf       modems          pwd.db
csh.logout      hosts           motd            remote
disktab         hosts.equiv     namedb          resolv.conf

(in most cases because it was the identical to the file I already had, or in
the case of group or master.passwd because the only differences were the
changes I had made myself)

But it's certainly possible there was some operator error - I am a bit
jet-lagged at the moment :-)

Regards,

Brian.


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