Garrett Cooper wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> Gaspar Chilingarov wrote: >> >> >>> Well another question -- is it possible teach somehow mergemaster, that >>> it should never touch passwd, groups, /etc/ttys or bunch of another >>> files? >>> >> >> Sure, you just do the opposite of what I did in the last script. If >> the file doesn't exist in the temproot when it's time to start >> comparing, mergemaster will never do anything with it. So here is some >> more out of the script that I actually use: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> # NOTE: No PATH needed, because mm's PATH is already draconian enough >> case "${PRE_WORLD}" in >> '') rm -f /etc/defaults/pccard.conf >> rm -f ${TEMPROOT}/etc/motd >> rm -f ${TEMPROOT}/etc/printcap >> rm -f ${TEMPROOT}/etc/namedb/named.* >> ;; >> esac >> >> > What if a user or group was added to /etc/group or /etc/passwd that was > required for the updated version of the OS? I would see this behavior a > bit counterproductive in this case. That's what the -p (PRE_WORLD) option is for. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protectionReceived on Wed Jul 11 2007 - 22:14:11 UTC
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