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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