Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: matt donovan wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: Well, my point is that mergemaster shouldn't have to delete ALL accounts, just to add one. User and group accounts can be added to the passwd/group file *without* deleting the others. mergemaster doesn't delete ALL accounts if you do it correctly. I usually leave the files for later and then manually do it. Your 'do it correctly' refers to 'leave it for later', however I've read at least twice yesterday, that someone *accidentally* 'installed' the file from /var/tmp/temproot. *That* should not be possible in the first place. Thank heaven it never happened to me (knock on wood), but a mistake is easily made, especially when you just went through a whole bunch of updated rc scripts. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org myself I just watch the file name line since I don't touch files outside of /usr. unless it's for example ppp.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
Le 07/01/2009 à 07:06:53+0100, Peter Boosten a écrit Johann Hasselbach wrote: I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran mergemaster instead of mergemaster -p before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I realized what I had done, but the damage was done. It seems to have overwritten my password and group files. I've stated this before: In my opinion this entire 'I want to overwrite your passwd file' attitude from mergemaster is nonsense: at installation time you're required to add an additional user, and mergemaster wants to undo that again. Well...i'm not developper but long time ago, when I update from FreeBSD x.y to Freebsd x+1,(0-1) I loose many time to find something don't work because the Freebsd x+1 need some new system account. Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26 Heure local/Local time: Mer 7 jan 2009 21:20:36 CET ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
Albert Shih wrote: Le 07/01/2009 à 07:06:53+0100, Peter Boosten a écrit Johann Hasselbach wrote: I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran mergemaster instead of mergemaster -p before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I realized what I had done, but the damage was done. It seems to have overwritten my password and group files. I've stated this before: In my opinion this entire 'I want to overwrite your passwd file' attitude from mergemaster is nonsense: at installation time you're required to add an additional user, and mergemaster wants to undo that again. Well...i'm not developper but long time ago, when I update from FreeBSD x.y to Freebsd x+1,(0-1) I loose many time to find something don't work because the Freebsd x+1 need some new system account. Well, my point is that mergemaster shouldn't have to delete ALL accounts, just to add one. User and group accounts can be added to the passwd/group file *without* deleting the others. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: Albert Shih wrote: Le 07/01/2009 à 07:06:53+0100, Peter Boosten a écrit Johann Hasselbach wrote: I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran mergemaster instead of mergemaster -p before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I realized what I had done, but the damage was done. It seems to have overwritten my password and group files. I've stated this before: In my opinion this entire 'I want to overwrite your passwd file' attitude from mergemaster is nonsense: at installation time you're required to add an additional user, and mergemaster wants to undo that again. Well...i'm not developper but long time ago, when I update from FreeBSD x.y to Freebsd x+1,(0-1) I loose many time to find something don't work because the Freebsd x+1 need some new system account. Well, my point is that mergemaster shouldn't have to delete ALL accounts, just to add one. User and group accounts can be added to the passwd/group file *without* deleting the others. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org mergemaster doesn't delete ALL accounts if you do it correctly. I usually leave the files for later and then manually do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
matt donovan wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: Well, my point is that mergemaster shouldn't have to delete ALL accounts, just to add one. User and group accounts can be added to the passwd/group file *without* deleting the others. mergemaster doesn't delete ALL accounts if you do it correctly. I usually leave the files for later and then manually do it. Your 'do it correctly' refers to 'leave it for later', however I've read at least twice yesterday, that someone *accidentally* 'installed' the file from /var/tmp/temproot. *That* should not be possible in the first place. Thank heaven it never happened to me (knock on wood), but a mistake is easily made, especially when you just went through a whole bunch of updated rc scripts. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran mergemaster instead of mergemaster -p before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I realized what I had done, but the damage was done. It seems to have overwritten my password and group files. I successfully copied groups, passwd, master.passwd, pwd.db, and spwd.db from a recent backup and everything looks okay now. Did I damage anything else? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
Johann Hasselbach wrote: I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran mergemaster instead of mergemaster -p before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I realized what I had done, but the damage was done. It seems to have overwritten my password and group files. I've stated this before: In my opinion this entire 'I want to overwrite your passwd file' attitude from mergemaster is nonsense: at installation time you're required to add an additional user, and mergemaster wants to undo that again. There are other ways to create new accounts or groups than simply overwriting passwd/group files. Also: most scripts updated by mergemaster during 7.0-7.1 are only version numbering diffs. Is there no smarter way to do this, apart from typing 'i' every time? Having to go through mergemaster is the most tedious job I've ever done (it would probably be bearable if only one machine was involved). Did I damage anything else? You might wanna look at hosts, login.conf, ssh config, pam, audit, sendmail, syslog.conf, basically everything in /etc. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:06:53AM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Johann Hasselbach wrote: I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran mergemaster instead of mergemaster -p before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I realized what I had done, but the damage was done. It seems to have overwritten my password and group files. I've stated this before: In my opinion this entire 'I want to overwrite your passwd file' attitude from mergemaster is nonsense: at installation time you're required to add an additional user, and mergemaster wants to undo that again. There are other ways to create new accounts or groups than simply overwriting passwd/group files. Also: most scripts updated by mergemaster during 7.0-7.1 are only version numbering diffs. Is there no smarter way to do this, apart from typing 'i' every time? I think you want -U option (auto upgrade files that have not been modified by user) along with -i (install missing files). Having to go through mergemaster is the most tedious job I've ever done (it would probably be bearable if only one machine was involved). Did I damage anything else? You might wanna look at hosts, login.conf, ssh config, pam, audit, sendmail, syslog.conf, basically everything in /etc. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
Yuri Pankov writes: Also: most scripts updated by mergemaster during 7.0-7.1 are only version numbering diffs. Is there no smarter way to do this, apart from typing 'i' every time? I think you want -U option (auto upgrade files that have not been modified by user) along with -i (install missing files). How does it deteremine what's been user-modified? I've got a few things that have local edits that, for reasons of laziness, still have the same version tag. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:06:53AM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Also: most scripts updated by mergemaster during 7.0-7.1 are only version numbering diffs. Is there no smarter way to do this, apart from typing 'i' every time? I think you want -U option (auto upgrade files that have not been modified by user) along with -i (install missing files). After reading the man page the -s option seems to be more appropriate (unless I misread that bit, of course :-) ). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
