Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:58:50 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Vincent D Murphy <murphyv@student.cs.ucc.ie> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure-supfile ? Message-ID: <200104271458.f3REwoc03905@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:12:50 BST." <20010427131250.A19037@student.cs.ucc.ie>
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> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:12:50 +0100 > From: Vincent D Murphy <murphyv@student.cs.ucc.ie> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > = Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> [20010427 1254]: > > Uhh, secure-supfile is gone over almost a year ago. > > > > Remove the SUPFILE1= line from your /etc/make.conf. > > > > I will fix src/etc/defaults/make.conf. > > just to confirm: i did > > cp /etc/defaults/make.conf /etc/make.conf > > a while back. i can't remember why, but i think there is no file there > by default and i needed one for some reason. This is normal. The idea is NOT to copy the /etc/defaults files to /etc. The idea is to place specific changes from defaults into a file in /etc. The /etc/defaults files contain the normal defaults for a great many things and should not be modified. That way, should OS changes require it, defaults can be changed easily (POLA). Rules for files in /etc/defaults: 1. Don't ever modify these files! 2. Don't ever copy them into /etc 3. Should defaults need to be changed, create or edit the /etc file of the same name to contain just the items requiring non-default behavior. If you do this, the odds of things failing after a system software upgrade are substantially reduced. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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