make upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/mailer.conf

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Feb 7 15:27:30 PST 2005


On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:12:43PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     getservbyname() and getservbyport() could use a simple 'check
>     /etc/services first then check /etc/defaults/services' scheme.
>     In getservent()'s case it would have to merge the two files
>     together (maybe on the fly if we were to require that the entries
>     be sorted by port) to produce a single coherent result.  

I'd still like to comment out users in /etc/passwd or services
in /etc/services, which would not be possible if they are virtually
merged.

Joerg

> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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