From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 8 13:32:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA12911 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:32:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA12903 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:32:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA09091; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:30:24 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199710082030.WAA09091@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: NFS Client option -- didn't take In-Reply-To: <199710081852.EAA01020@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Oct 9, 97 04:22:50 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:30:24 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >From the oct 7'th beta, selecting NFS client during the installation > > didn't "take" in rc.conf. > > > > BTW, why is install modifying rc.conf instead of just writing the > > changes into rc.conf.local? > > Because rc.conf.local violates the entire purpose of rc.conf. The > default values for the variables in rc.conf are implicit in the rc.* > scripts; rc.conf is where you overried these defaults as you wish. > I guess it depends on your point of view. The way I do boxes here is to keep the default rc.conf and make all changes in rc.conf.local. This means I can at any time update the rc.* scripts and I will get the new variables that were added to rc.conf with their default values. This makes life a lot easier than having to constantly merge the new rc.conf variables into my configured rc.conf. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za