From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 26 9:18:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wgate.com (mail.wgate.com [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C230337B69E; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjesup@wgate.com) Received: from jesup.eng.tvol.net ([10.32.2.26]) by mail.wgate.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 152C6332; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:18:38 -0500 Reply-To: Randell Jesup To: Matt Dillon Cc: John Baldwin , Nate Williams , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, josb@cncdsl.com, Alfred Perlstein , Terry Lambert , Randell Jesup , Wes Peters , Tony Finch Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND References: <200102250208.f1P28VC10795@earth.backplane.com> From: Randell Jesup Date: 26 Feb 2001 12:19:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: Matt Dillon's message of "Sat, 24 Feb 2001 18:08:31 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon writes: >:>> applications >:>> in a single file is (A) a stupid idea, (B) a stupid idea, and most >:>> importantly (C) ... a stupid idea. >:> >:> So, does that mean we should get rid of /etc/rc.conf? > A file such as /etc/rc.conf may apply to many programs, but it's a > read-only typically boot-time-only entity. On top of that, while all > the /etc/rc* files reference many different programs, all of the > programs and defaults with only a very few exceptions are part of the > base system. 99.9% of third party programs don't use /etc/rc.conf > directly and don't know it even exists, and entries in rc.conf are > typically very small single-line entities. This means that even > though the parameters specified in /etc/rc.conf may apply to many > different programs, it is still a very far cry from what registry-like > system is designed to deal with. One can hardly compare /etc/rc.conf > against a registry. Minor quibble: In general I agree with you; however I should note that some things specified in rc.conf (especially network configuration information) is used by many programs, though they interact with the pieces of the system that took their information from rc.conf (via ifconfig for example). -- Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94) rjesup@wgate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message