"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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
