What we keep under /etc

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Sun Oct 10 00:40:10 PDT 2004


On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <20041009002051.GA20265 at odin.ac.hmc.edu>
>             Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
> : As long as you don't actually modify the scripts you can just do an "rm
> : /etc/rc.d/*" and run mergemaster with -i.  It's a whole lot less painful
> : that way.
>
> rm -rf /etc/rc.d/* /etc/isdn/* /etc/periodic/* /etc/defaults/*
> mergemaster -i
>
> Is what I usually do.  However, I'd rather have a regexp of filenames
> that I can tell mergemaster NOT to merge and to merge everything else.

/etc/isdn/ includes quite some user customizable files. That's not too
got for automated update from make installworld for all those people
using ISDN though some selective files in that directory can for sure
be automatically updated (holiday, rates files I think).

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Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT


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