From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1a2046b3e76d2f99631d550c07aae006@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ndb/local In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 14:43:34 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9545b082-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > this leads me to wonder: how out of sync are the distribution bits like > termrc and what you guys run? seems like maybe a bit? the >/dev/null was added at some point for reasons now forgotten, probably to silence ipconfig when there was no ethernet card. for the most part, we try to keep our own file server and sources synchronized. termrc and cpurc are not, since we have various local customizations in both. ipconfig is a good example -- there's no ipconfig in our own termrc, because termrc serves hosts booting off the network, so they'd better have set up their ip settings already! the vast majority of the files are in sync. we have a script that watches these things.