On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:34:26PM -0600, J. Porter Clark wrote: > Is there any way to keep certain files out of the reach of > mergemaster? I understand the need for carefully merging the > old and the new, but I really shouldn't ever have to for files > like these: > > /etc/aliases > /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.allow > /etc/manpath.config > ... and many others.
Set the system immutable and undeletable flags (as root); chflags schg,sunlnk /etc/aliases /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.allow \ /etc/manpath.config > Mergemaster has so many options that I'm fairly certain that > there must be some way to do this. There is an option you can set in /etc/mergemaster.rc to ignore /etc/motd, and the -P option to preserve replaced files. Of course you can always hack it to ignore some files. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
pgpqOhnPK3OpK.pgp
Description: PGP signature
