Re: No longer necessary to 'rm /etc/rc.d/*'

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:45:23 +0100
Doug Barton <DougB_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:
> In order to keep /etc/rc.d up to date, it was frequently recommended
> to do 'rm /etc/rc.d/* ; mergemaster -i'. As of 4 January this year
> it's not only no longer necessary to do that, it's not a good idea to
> do it. mergemaster now notifies you of stale files in /etc/rc.d, but
> the part of the script that does that will do funny things if you
> remove all the files first.

It shouldn't do funny things.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Sun Feb 01 2004 - 23:56:13 UTC

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