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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:19:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: beating mergemaster to /etc/rc.d
Message-ID:  <20041013101825.B19494-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <16749.21420.643438.983797@ran.psg.com>

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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Randy Bush wrote:

> i know that when i do a mergemaster, i am about to see 666 updates
> to /etc/rc.d/*, to each of which i will have to type "qi<eol>".
> as it will be over a 9600 baud remote serial console, this is a
> pita and causes undue delay for the users.
>
> once i boot the new kernel -sw, is it safe to
>
>    cp /usr/src/etc/rc.d/* /etc/rc.d
>
> and then run mergemaster -cvi?

Wouldn't it be easier to just rm /etc/rc.d/*?  That's what I do before
running mergemaster with the -i flag, and it installs everything in rc.d
without prompting.

Jamie Bowden

-- 
"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>




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