Re: make upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/mailer.conf

["Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@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