On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:49:22AM -0800 or thereabouts, Thanjee Neefam wrote: > I was playing around with one of my machines (non mission-critical - > mainly used for experimenting) and I decided to try updating my sources. > I am running 5.0r. I didn't have any sources on my machine (other than > kernel) so I used /stand/sysinstall to add all sources. I then used cvsup > with the standard-supfile to update all sources. I then did a make world, > make kernel and rebooted. > > When I logged back in again, root no longer had a password, my users were > gone, and other settings were reset such as the ppp.conf and ttys. Other > settings like X11/XF86Config were fine. Now I can slowly fix all the > mixing parts and reedit conf files, but I would just like to know why > most of them were reset? > I think the reason it broke was because /stand/sysinstall overwrote my > config files when I added all sources. Is this assumption correct?
NO. /stand/sysinstall is quite careful about not overwriting your config files. > Or did > I perhaps lose them at a later stage? Is there someway for this not to > happen in the future? You did not read /usr/src/UPDATING. Read the procedure, ALL of it. I think you forgot to run `mergemaster', or you just said "overwrite everything". -- Josh > > Cheers, > Thanjee > > /////////// [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\\\\\\\\\ > AAFE Audio, Amiga and FreeBSD Enthusiast :p > \\\\\\\\\ http://www.fastmail.fm ////////// > /////////// [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\\\\\\\\\ > AAFE Audio, Amiga and FreeBSD Enthusiast :p > \\\\\\\\\ http://www.fastmail.fm ////////// > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
