No longer necessary to 'rm /etc/rc.d/*'

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Mon Feb 2 00:56:13 PST 2004


Doug Barton <DougB at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> In order to keep /etc/rc.d up to date, it was frequently recommended
> to do 'rm /etc/rc.d/* ; mergemaster -i'. As of 4 January this year
> it's not only no longer necessary to do that, it's not a good idea to
> do it. mergemaster now notifies you of stale files in /etc/rc.d, but
> the part of the script that does that will do funny things if you
> remove all the files first.

It shouldn't do funny things.

DES
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