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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:48:34 -0700, Mike S wrote: |
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> ok I have many questions this time. I set this variable before but for |
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> get where it was. There is something that emerge can to to |
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> automatically write over existing configuration files. And when I |
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> first installed gentoo I set it to do that, not knowing how annoying it |
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> could be. Now I hope someone can help me in changing that back, as |
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> when I ran emerge world a lot of settings were deleted, some of which |
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> have been easy to change, and some not. |
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The variable is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, set in /etc/make.conf. It sound |
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slike you set it to "/etc", which is a dangerous thing to do, especially |
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when you emerge a baselayout update and your fstab and passwd files get |
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overwritten. Comment out the setting in make.conf, or set it to contain |
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only directories where you know it is safe for emerge to overwrite files. |
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I have it set to "/etc/init.d". |
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Neil Bothwick |
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The trouble with the world is that everybody in it is three drinks behind. |
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