From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 27 10:20:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC7B37B424 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3RHKSb88906 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:20:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:20:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure-supfile ? In-Reply-To: <200104271613.f3RGDQc06573@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I have never written a man page and > have no experience with troff, but here is my take at a README file > for /etc/defaults: > This directory contains default configuration files for various > purposes. They should never be modified by system administrators. > > If you want to make changes to these files, simply create or edit a > file of the same name in /etc to contain only the items you need to > change. Any items in a file in /etc will override the values for an > identical item in the file in /etc/defaults. Perhaps an additional note that says: WARNING! If you copy the entire rc.conf file to /etc, YOUR SYSTEM WILL NO LONGER BOOT. All: What do people think of this idea? Or should this be going to -doc (which I'm not subscribed to)? -- Bob | "Villain, I have done thy mother" - Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act IV, scene II To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message