On Wed, 14 May 2003, Roger Fischer wrote:

> So it looks like there are two utilities for updating the /etc 
> directory after the update.
> 
> 	etcupdate (8)
> and	postinstall	(resolve issues due to an update from 1.5.x)
> 
> Do these do the same thing?  It looks like I'll need to run them both.

No, they don't do the same thing, but they are similar. However, etcupdate
is a superset of postinstall, and runs postinstall to check things, but
patches files interactively.

	Johnny

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