freebsd-update and locally modfied files

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Zbigniew Szalbot" <zbyszek at szalbot.homedns.org> writes:

> Can you help me by suggesting what I need to do when I want to use
> freebsd-update fetch (FBSD 6.2) but get the following message:
>
> The following files are affected by updates, but no changes have
> been downloaded because the files have been modified locally:
> /etc/rc.d/jail
>
> Now, I do not recall ever playing with jail. Anyway, how do I update the
> system (and keep changes to /etc/rc.d/jail (if any))?

I suggest looking at the differences, and hand-updating to the latest
version of the file if it will server for you.  Then you should be
able to take updates in the future...