On Friday 30 September 2005 23:50, Ashley Moran wrote:
> Unfortunately it seems that config files for the subsystems (eg SSH) are
> stored separately in the CVS tree and I didn't have time to work out
> where they live.

The trick is to get the system to build you an /etc - see how mergemaster does 
it (runs make in the right place basically)

> While we're on the subject, how do you handle the DB files?  I don't see
> any special mention of them in the man pages.  When I last etcmerged I
> glossed over them and haven't had any login problems since.

For passwd stuff I merge /etc/master.passwd and then run cap_mkdb to rebuild 
the other 3 files based on it.

Also run newaliases when aliases are touched, and cap_mkdb for login.conf.

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