Re: New ver NetBSD and the /etc files.

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 14:15:00 +0000, Van Ly wrote:

> Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> > With etcupdate. If you use sysupgrade, it will run etcupdate at the end.
> 
> Is there a way to tell the update to ignore the following files?
> 
>  — /etc/passwd
>  — /etc/group

You can just tell that to etcupdate interactively:

  d  Don't install the new file (keep your old file)

We do get new users/groups from time to time (e.g. to run some
daemon), so you need to keep an eye on changes to these files.

But there's always IGNOREFILES environment variable - see the man page
(we should probably provide an example...)

-uwe