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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