make upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/mailer.conf

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Feb 2 12:53:08 PST 2005


On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:21:39PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     If we implement the same override mechanism for things like /etc/services,
>     everything should work just fine.  We modify the files in /etc/defaults,
>     and the sysad modifies the files in /etc.  No conflict.

But it does mean that I can't remove a service. Or we would have to change the
structure of /etc/services to allow negative entries. Same for almost all
other formats. rc.conf is IMO one of the few files where the override
mechanism actually makes sense.

Joerg





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