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From: Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Duplicating a runlevel
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:45:30
Message-Id: 20040524214528.GA19566@phaenix.haell.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Duplicating a runlevel by Aron Griffis
1 At 2004-05-24T14:08:59-0400, Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o> wrote:
2 > Dennis Nienh?ser wrote:[Fri May 21 2004, 03:48:09PM EDT]
3 > > to duplicate the default runlevel,
4 > > $ cp -r /etc/runlevels/default /etc/runlevels/foo
5 >
6 > You probably want either -R or -a instead of -r. See cp(1)
7
8 Not anymore. Now '-r' and '-R' are synonyms for cp(1). The folks over at
9 Gnu decided that the silly behavior of '-r' was just *too* silly. Now,
10 you need to issue '--copy-contents' in order to break stuff.
11
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