From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 20 2:19: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F6B37B400; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 02:19:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:18:54 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16yqyN-0001TH-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:15:59 +0100 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:15:59 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Calvin NG Cc: D J Hawkey Jr , DougB , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory In-Reply-To: <20020420111130.C6261@brel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Calvin NG wrote: > Greetings, > > I believe when people say copy rc.conf from /etc/defaults/ into > /etc/, and go throught it line by line, they really mean, > 1) copy rc.conf from /etc/defaults/ to /etc/ > 2) go through it line by line, deleting every line that you want > leave as default. Make changes to the site specific stuff, > like sshd_enable=YES > > At the end of the whole exercise, you will get that small rc.conf > again that is tailored to your server's need. > > Same applies for make.conf and other /etc/defaults/ files. > > Does that make sense? Yes; however, I'd rather do this once at install time than after every buildworld. > I for one can see the rationale of the new rc.conf changes, where > everything is off, and all things that are turned on is reflected > in the _ONE_ /etc/rc.conf file. It seems reasonable. But to do it out of the blue breaks the POLA; there should have been a louder heads-up. We've now had one, and the sendmail defaults that were "on" in 4-stable are back, and I hope this will be reflected in UPDATING then forgotten about. > I got bitten by it, (inetd not started), but I am not complaining, > I blame myself for failing to pay attention to changes in _MY_ server. Maybe (I always review changes with mergemaster), but it's a reasonable assumption that existing default switches stay the same along a -stable track, so don't "blame" yourself too much. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk "...perl has been dead for more than 4 years." - Abigail in the Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message