beating mergemaster to /etc/rc.d

Russell Jackson rjackson at cserv63.csub.edu
Wed Oct 13 09:17:00 PDT 2004


As long as you haven't made any local changes to the files, there's
no reason why you need to use mergemaster on them.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:11:24AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> i know that when i do a mergemaster, i am about to see 666 updates
> to /etc/rc.d/*, to each of which i will have to type "qi<eol>".
> as it will be over a 9600 baud remote serial console, this is a
> pita and causes undue delay for the users.
> 
> once i boot the new kernel -sw, is it safe to
> 
>    cp /usr/src/etc/rc.d/* /etc/rc.d
> 
> and then run mergemaster -cvi?
> 
> randy
> 
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