On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:31:31PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > 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.) > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Thanks for the instructions. Same old question again: Will mergemaster be in 4.2? ;-] Tobias
