bin/62165: Mergemaster bogon in the use of *

[David Gilbert]

>Number:         62165
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Mergemaster bogon in the use of *
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 31 08:00:44 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Gilbert
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
DaveG.ca
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD canoe.dclg.ca 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3: Fri Jan 30 12:56:19 EST 2004 dgilbert at canoe.dclg.ca:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/CANOE i386


As above.
>Description:
In response to a recent posting to freebsd-current, I was reminded that
I should delete certain files in my /etc/rc.d.  One recomended way was
to delete all files in rc.d and run mergemaster -i.

However, in response to this, mergemaster says that the following files
are present in /etc/rc.d but on in /var/tmp/temproot/etc/rc.d: *
and prompts to remove "them" ... meaning *
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /etc/rc.d
rm -f *
mergemaster -i
>Fix:

I suspect this is the misfeature of the shell where "*" is deemed literal
if it doesn't match anything.


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