From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 0:20:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F4637B71A for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:20:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f2A8Iti50329; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 03:18:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <003a01c0a93b$8931a2b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Forrest" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: 4.3Beta, Jim Durham, Matt Emmerton, Mike Meyer, Kris Kennaway,etc. Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 03:24:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Thanks Jim and Mike: Fixed 50% of my problems: after reading your posts, I > thought maybe looking at the source would help, indeed it did. I ran diff > /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf with the /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and discovered > [duh!] that most of my important settings had been hosed in the merge > differences operation. Are you making your site-specific changes in /etc/defaults/rc.conf? If you are, you shouldn't. You should only be modifying (or adding) the appropriate overrides to the defaults in /etc/rc.conf, and leaving the defaults file alone. mergemaster doesn't examine rc.conf (since it's site-specific) and that way you'll never overwrite your site configuration during an upgrade, even though the defaults may change. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message