"brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will mess it up.

  on a unix-system mostly anything you do blindly, as root, will mess
  up your system.  and, on a unix-system, with your eyes open, that
  mess can be fixed.

> Every update that etc-update has wanted to do has wanted to replace
> my /dev/... with /dev/BOOT and take out my stuff and that would sure
> hose the system.  Other than running it through an editor manually I
> don't know of anyway to let etc-update do it.  

  you select the option of keeping the original.  in the rare event
  that I actually want a merger, I look at the original, merge the new
  file, and copy over my local changes.  apart from ssh-setup,
  conf.d-files and make.conf, this happens _very_ rarely.

> I suppose you could try an interactive update but for files like
> fstab I'll do it by hadn.

  the interactive update is pretty decent actually, but I don't use it
  much myself.

-- 
Terje

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