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To: Vincent D Murphy <murphyv@student.cs.ucc.ie>
Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: secure-supfile ? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:12:50 BST."
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:58:50 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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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

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