From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GaDI3-0002IL-0E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:25:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9IFMvUj030357; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:22:57 GMT Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9IFJZhP027643 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:19:36 GMT Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 9so157475nzo for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:19:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aVEyeiY2fLedqXiNJlNiaY7+wOWqpYZ8VG9yS1A1VpljeWFo87WzIcYIslgreC6plpSB5mAwmZeBIu75TX0j0+LHUX4NlSU421yiObQcBKfHhWTnUL/U8bB6XVhspL6F8WA1uNxh3e3D/B/+jQfhg9ghHm5ZNcsbzFrUTIKFrSY= Received: by 10.35.115.18 with SMTP id s18mr17990633pym; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.118.16 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <432beae0610180819k533050dfg952d6f58ca5caf1a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:19:31 -0700 From: "Justin Patrin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster In-Reply-To: <432beae0610180814p22fb16d9s935b4601fb415555@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061015020925.23363.qmail@web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <432beae0610180814p22fb16d9s935b4601fb415555@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: df6dedb5-ff1a-44cd-bb06-e82a752c8733 X-Archives-Hash: 91b95ccd2580801ef4cf65f5c5a6418d On 10/18/06, Justin Patrin wrote: > On 10/14/06, maxim wexler wrote: > > Hello group, > > > > As I expected it would, dispatch-conf > > over-wrote/corrupted a lot of files without giving me > > a chance to stop it. It left no log(file was empty)in > > /var/log/dispatch-conf.log. or any record of its > > passing that I can find. > > > > Why did you expect this and, if you expected it, why didn't you take > steps to back things up. > > dispatch-conf normally works just fine. Perhaps you set some incorrect > options in your dispatch-conf conf file, such as auto-updating of all > files. You also should have set up RCS backups of your conf files so > that you can move back. > nm, looks like the FUD has been dealt with in further replies. -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list