beating mergemaster to /etc/rc.d

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Oct 14 19:45:39 PDT 2004


In message: <16749.21420.643438.983797 at ran.psg.com>
            Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> writes:
: 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?

More or less.  You get an extra Makefile if you do this.  I'd be
tempted to rm /etc/rc.d/* instead.

Warner


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