today's build is causing errors for me

[Rob Lytle]

Hi Jeremy,

You were correct.  Somehow some files in /etc/rc.d had permissions of 644.
Setting the new permissions to that of the old fixed the problem.  Thanks.

Rob.

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:04:34PM -0700, Rob Lytle wrote:
> > Hi Jeremy,
> >
> > I used Mergemaster.  Thats what I mean't when I said that I carefully
> > "merged" /usr/src/etc/ with /etc.  But like I said, no files were
> > replaced that contained my own configuration, e.g. group.  I will say
> > this- that I have always considered Mergemaster a confusing mess,
> > despite the dogma on the lists.  I have been running FreeBSD and
> > installing it since 1998, so I have some experience- but this is new
> > behavior beyond my previous experiences.
>
> "Permission denied" could imply that the rc scripts aren't set to
> executable.  Possibly a umask problem?
>
> Additionally, mergemaster isn't a confusing mess.  If anything, it's one
> of the most simple tools there is for managing /etc.  The part you
> probably find "confusing", which is the same part I did when I started
> using it, is the side-by-side interactive diff.  It's very easy to use;
> "r" means use the text shown on the right, and "l" means use the text
> shown on the left.
>
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