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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