Dear James,
>
> > I had a mergemaster problem a while back, but I haven't debugged it
> > properly. I had my /etc/ppp symlinked into /home/root/ppp.
> Then, after a
> > mergemaster run I ended up with a file named /etc/ppp, which had the
> > contents of the new version of /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.
>
> I symlinked /etc/ppp to /usr/ppp and mergemaster updated
> fine. I then removed
> /usr/ppp making the symlink invalid and mergemaster overwrote
> the bad symlink
> with ppp.conf. Is there any chance when you ran mergemaster
> that one time your /home was not mounted?
>
Well, now that you mention it I think that I just blew away /home/root/ppp
since the box was not going to dial out anymore. Best not have passwords
lying around for no reason. :) Glad you could reproduce it.
Should I submit a PR or is this a "doctor, it hurts when I press
here"--thing?
Kees Jan
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