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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 -> 2.2.2
Date: 27 May 1997 10:47:30 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5m7ni1$ain@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
	j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> This leads to the funny situation that my main development machine has
> never ever seen a file named /etc/sysconfig.  It still runs with the
> same good ol' FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 /etc/rc... and now sysconfig is gone and
> has been replaced by /etc/rc.conf.  :-)

The flip-side is "noticing" all changes to /usr/src/etc files and
merging them with /etc.

I try to do this on my -current box, but I'm sure I miss a lot !
Every now and then I have to catch up.  Wasn't there talk (from
Jordan) about the rc* files (except rc.conf & rc.firewall) being
installed with make world ?

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !