People who use ports/sysutils/mergemaster to update /etc might want
to manually check their /etc/login.conf:

# cd /usr/src/etc
# make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/temproot distribution-etc-root-var
# diff -u /etc/login.conf /var/tmp/temproot/etc/login.conf
[... compare, edit ...]
# rm -r /var/tmp/temproot

A while back, the default filedescriptor limit was bumped from 64
to 128.  The login.conf file is generated from a template and that
change happened in mklogin.conf, not login.conf.in.  However,
login.conf only sports the $OpenBSD: login.conf.in,v $ line.  No
difference there, so mergemaster skips the comparison, missing out
on the change.

(This is of particular importance to Firefox users, since FF tends
to run out of file descriptors with the old limit, causing all sorts
of odd problems.)
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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