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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:56:52 -0500 (EST)
From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@daveg.ca>
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Subject: Mergemaster bogon in the use of *
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>Number:         62165
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Mergemaster bogon in the use of *
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    dougb
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 31 08:00:44 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:    Sun Feb 01 16:15:44 PST 2004
>Last-Modified:  Sun Feb 01 16:15:44 PST 2004
>Originator:     David Gilbert
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
DaveG.ca
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD canoe.dclg.ca 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3: Fri Jan 30 12:56:19 EST 2004 dgilbert@canoe.dclg.ca:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/CANOE i386


As above.
>Description:
In response to a recent posting to freebsd-current, I was reminded that
I should delete certain files in my /etc/rc.d.  One recomended way was
to delete all files in rc.d and run mergemaster -i.

However, in response to this, mergemaster says that the following files
are present in /etc/rc.d but on in /var/tmp/temproot/etc/rc.d: *
and prompts to remove "them" ... meaning *
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /etc/rc.d
rm -f *
mergemaster -i
>Fix:

I suspect this is the misfeature of the shell where "*" is deemed literal
if it doesn't match anything.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->dougb 
Responsible-Changed-By: ceri 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Feb 1 05:26:43 PST 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Assign to the mergemaster maintainer. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62165 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: dougb 
State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 1 16:14:43 PST 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  

Don't do that anymore. mergemaster now alerts you when you 
have stale files in /etc/rc.d, so deleting them is not 
necessary, or advisable. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62165 
>Unformatted:
