HEADS UP! RCNG in the tree...

Robert Garrett rg70 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 24 04:29:35 PDT 2003


Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     Robert Garrett has done an excellent job porting over the the RCNG
>     stuff. I spent some time doing a bit of additional work to smooth out
>     the wrinkles and committed it.
> 
>     I also brought in the 5.x mergemaster, because it will clean up the
>     old rc files for you (amoung other things), and tried to synch up
>     the mtree config files and so forth.
> 
>     If you want to update your system to run RCNG, so you can report the
>     bugs to us, you need to do the following:
> 
> cvsup/update your source tree.  If cvsup'ing the cvs tree remember
> to cvs update your source tree afterwords.
> 
> cd /usr/src/sbin/rcorder; make; make install
> cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster; make; make install
> 
> mergemaster
> 
>     I'm sure things will come up but I was quite surprised how smooth it
>     went when I initially tried booting with it.  My mistake was to forget
>     to install 'rcorder', and of course RCNG won't work at all without it!
> 
>     Also note the following changes in the RC defaults:
> 
> sendmail is not enabled by default
> inetd is not enabled by default
> named runs as user bind and group bind by default, if enabled
> 
> -Matt
Thanks to Steve Mynott, Alex Popa, and Jim Sloan for testing this
for Me.

Rob





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