From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 21 13:08:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28142 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:08:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28137 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:08:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA43344; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:08:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: "Joerg B. Micheel" Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Mike Nguyen , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf References: <19990121023914.B468@krdl.org.sg> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Jan 1999 22:08:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Joerg B. Micheel"'s message of "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:39:14 +0800" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Joerg B. Micheel" writes: > > consolidating all that config information in one place, such as > > /etc/rc.conf, would be a good thing. > Agreed, it really isn't such a good idea to clutter /etc/ with all > those single line configuration files. Actually, they did it for a reason, and it's not really a *bad* reason. It makes automated administration a lot easier - e.g. writing scripts that modify the system config etc. Solaris (and SysV in general) is *very* geared towards automated adminning. That's not necessarily a bad thing, if it's done properly, but I don't agree with the way they chose to solve some of the problems that arise when you do that. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message