/etc files

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sun Aug 30 16:11:24 UTC 2015


On 08/30/15 11:13, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 08/30/15 11:02, doug at safeport.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/30/15 10:49, doug wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I notice several files in my /etc directory whose filenames end in 
>>>>> ':'. Are these system files ? If not, can I usefully delete them 
>>>>> :-) ? TIA & have aq nice weekend.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Compare /etc to /usr/src/etc
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No such directory on my box, I am guessing my virtually exclusive 
>>> use of pkgng to maintain packages might be to blame. Other ideas ? 
>>> TIA & have a good one.
>>>
>>  Modify freebsd-update to include src. Change components statement to be
>>   Components src world kernel
>>
>
>
> Hmmmm .... Just tried that, did a 'freebsd-update fetch' & still no 
> /usr/src/etc .... Clues ? TIA & have a good one.


BTW:

[root at kabini1, /etc, 11:15:51am] 375 % uname -a
FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p21 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p21 #0: Tue 
Jul 28 09:02:48 UTC 2015 
root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[root at kabini1, /etc, 11:16:55am] 376 %

forgot that earlier, sorry :-/ ....


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