On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:09 pm, Stroller wrote: > I recall a while back there were some changes that were necessary to be > merged into fstab; in fact mine contains the following 3 lines: > # added by baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1 - 5/7/2003 > # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! > none /proc proc defaults > 0 0
yes, sometimes changes like this are introduced ... more likely with system groups/users being introduced than fstab, but it does happen > But aside from that, fstab and some other systems files never change; I > always think these should be distributed as /etc/fstab.example and so > on. The Installation documentation could be changed to say "copy & edit > your fstab like so: cp /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab && nano -w > /etc/fstab`" and users would have the benefit of a back-up of the > original should they ever b0rk theirs up. thats kind of the point of backing up the files ... you cant screw up your files if you back them up /etc/dispatch-conf.conf -mike
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