cvs commit: src/share/examples/etc make.conf

[Philip Paeps]

On 2005-03-03 13:45:13 (-0600), Mike Silbersack <silby at silby.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:49:02AM +0000, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > trhodes     2005-03-02 03:49:02 UTC
> > > 
> > >   Add NO_RCMDS to the list.
> >
> > Cool, now just change the default to NO_RCMDS=true  (^_^)
> 
> With the current state of things, wouldn't that just ensure that users would
> end up having older and more stale versions of the R-commands sitting around
> on their drives?  It seems like the security scripts should notify people of
> old binaries sitting around in /bin and other related paths...

Perhaps we could modify mergemaster to do a find -mtime +1 or something to
that effect?  If we can assume that mergemaster is run sometime 'soon' after
an installworld?

After installing a new world, I usually go around manually through most of my
base system looking for stale files and killing them.

I don't think mergemaster -- or anything else, for that matter -- should go
around blindly nuking files older than a certain age under / and /usr, but it
would be nice if it could warn users of their existence.

As an alternative to mtime, we could compare the checksums of the files under
/usr/obj with the installed versions and warn of differences?

 - Philip

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