Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:53:30 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Message-ID: <200010261853.MAA43056@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:34:09 BST." <20001026193409.A14486@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20001026193409.A14486@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <imp@village.org> <21367.972424567@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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In message <20001026193409.A14486@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Nik Clayton writes: : On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:56:07PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: : > [redirected to just -current; I'm not sure what this has to do with -net] : > : > > I agree. I've been using them for a while on my dog slow Windows CE : > > machine. There were some minor issues when they were first committed : > > to NetBSD on some platforms (due to a too early use of ps and some : > > brokeness in ps on pmax, for example), but these were quickly : > > resolved. : > : > So, who wants to do a proof-of-concept implementation for -current : > which integrates with our existing rc.conf mechanism? In order to : > obey POLA, we should at least have the separate scripts switch off the : > same knobs whenever possible. : : As far as I'm aware, Neil Blakey-Milner is doing just that (I'm surprised : he hasn't said so himself, although I think this week/fortnight's quite : hectic for him in the real world). I'm looking forward to it. NetBSD does have an rc.conf already and they have recently moved to the two teir /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf after much gnashing of teeth and beating of breasts... I suspect that if we move to their rc files, a similar gnashing of teeth and beating of breasts will be played out in the mailing lists. :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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