On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:30:24AM -0800, Tejas Kokje wrote: > I am upgrading by freebsd installation. While doing mergemaster, it > didn't ask me whether it should overwrite my /etc/motd file. > > Is manual backing up of /etc/motd the only option or have I missed > something in mergemaster ?
By default, mergemaster will always ask about /etc/motd. If you set the IGNORE_MOTD=yes config option then /etc/motd will be ignored entierly (IMO, this should be the default). If it is in fact being over written without a prompt that is a bug since mergemaster is specificaly supposed to avoid overwritting anything without user intervention. It's possiable you have an MM_PRE_COMPARE_SCRIPT that is doing it for you if someone else configurd the machine. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
pgphSt1OjPUXa.pgp
Description: PGP signature
