On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:48:34 -0700, Mike S wrote: > ok I have many questions this time. I set this variable before but for > get where it was. There is something that emerge can to to > automatically write over existing configuration files. And when I > first installed gentoo I set it to do that, not knowing how annoying it > could be. Now I hope someone can help me in changing that back, as > when I ran emerge world a lot of settings were deleted, some of which > have been easy to change, and some not.
The variable is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, set in /etc/make.conf. It sound slike you set it to "/etc", which is a dangerous thing to do, especially when you emerge a baselayout update and your fstab and passwd files get overwritten. Comment out the setting in make.conf, or set it to contain only directories where you know it is safe for emerge to overwrite files. I have it set to "/etc/init.d". -- Neil Bothwick The trouble with the world is that everybody in it is three drinks behind.
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