On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:35:39PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, John Hay wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:07:01AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:50:37PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > > > > > Was this behaviour from mergemaster intended ? > > > > > > > > > > > > *** Displaying differences between ./etc/login.conf.db and installed version: > > > > > > > > Binary files /etc/login.conf.db and ./etc/login.conf.db differ > > > > > > > > Use 'd' to delete the temporary ./etc/login.conf.db > > > > Use 'i' to install the temporary ./etc/login.conf.db > > > > Use 'm' to merge the temporary and installed versions > > > > Use 'v' to view the diff results again > > > > > > > > Default is to leave the temporary file to deal with by hand > > > > > > > > How should I deal with this? [Leave it for later] d > > > > > > > > *** Deleting ./etc/login.conf.db > > > > > > > Sorry, I don't use mergemaster(8) so I can't say. Doug was > > > all for this change, so he may be of some help here. > > > > I think it is because previously login.conf.db was optional. Now it > > is kind of forced on you because all installations will have it. So > > either you have to remember to delete it or remember to update it > > after login.conf has changed. > > Correct, but this is not a bad thing. :) mergemaster already prompts you > to rebuild it when it's updated, so this is not rocket science.
Well I did not mean it was necessarily bad, but it is a change and might be ok for -current. I'm just not so sure it is good for -stable too. Say for instance someone is used to just editing /etc/login.conf and have it take effect, so if he installs 4.8 and just edit /etc/login.conf, it won't take effect as it did before. > > FWIW I never used login.conf.db on > > any of my machines because the system can read login.conf already > > and I don't maintain high login rate machines. > > Are you sure that login time is the only time that this is read? :) Well, no. :-) John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
