make upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/mailer.conf
Devon H. O'Dell
dodell at sitetronics.com
Tue Feb 8 11:08:03 PST 2005
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:03 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> I just thought of another idea and that would be to have a special
> keyword in /etc/services that tells libc NOT to check /etc/defaults/services
> at all. e.g. something like:
>
> DISABLE /etc/defaults/services
>
> or, for compatibility with older scripts,
>
> ##DISABLE /etc/defaults/services
>
> or something like that. Just a thought.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I like the first version better, simply because the second would require
us to have to parse comments. Which seems like a really gross hack.
Why would we want libc to not check /etc/defaults/services anyway?
--Devon
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