Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:49:55 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, "Peter Jeremy" <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Doug Barton" <DougB@gorean.org>, "FreeBSD stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Gerhard Sittig" <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>, "Jason T" <luser@ahab.com> Subject: Re: remove empty TEMPROOT dirs at mergemaster's end? (was: cvs commit:src/usr.sbin/mergemaster mergemaster.sh) Message-ID: <200008240440.AAA31557@sanson.reyes.somos.net> In-Reply-To: <00Aug23.140643est.115225@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:06:40 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >As an example, rc.conf was recently changed (in -current) to not >start inetd, portmap or sendmail. If you are actually relying on >any of these daemons, and you actually notice the differences in >/etc/defaults/rc.conf, you will be able to update /etc/rc.conf >without a period of head-scratching when they don't start. I think that is a different problem alltogether. Whoever made that choice should warn the heck out of the rest of us, or even better stop and think real hard why is this been done. Perhaps it is security or some other "good" reason, but it is the equivalent of "breaking" things. For a computer or two it is not a big deal, but for a small shop which still has not figure out a way to automate distribution of updates this is a pain. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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