From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 22 15:23:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA06878 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 15:23:09 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA06872 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 15:23:07 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA19431; Sat, 22 Jul 95 16:15:49 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9507222215.AA19431@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD To: gurney_j@efn.org (John-Mark Gurney) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 95 16:15:48 MDT Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John-Mark Gurney" at Jul 22, 95 00:58:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > This is work in process. If you look at the 2.0.5R versions of rc, and > > netstart at the top they have clear markers saying that if for some > > reason you need to modify this file we would like to know about it. > > does that mean that I should tell you guys about my addion of the xfs, > xdm, pcnfsd, and bootp stuff to /etc/rc and /etc/sysconfig? I added them in > the tradion of the other options... Yes, it does. Basically, the /etc/sysconfig is the only thing that won't get crapped on by an install update. That doesn't mean that what you think are options will match the general consensus. Be aware that in the future, changes to system procedure files, like /etc/rc, will be overwritten on update. Probably, there needs to be a global install manifest file with MD5 checksums to indicate to te upgrade program that changes have been made in files supposedly allowed to be tromped on. It also means that the manifest files are only updatable with the install process, so there's problems with /etc/rc from "current" inless the install system goes to a per file granularity on file and manifest checksup updating. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.