From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 25 14:55:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA08939 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 14:55:31 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA08933 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 14:55:29 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA11980; Sun, 25 Jun 95 15:48:28 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9506252148.AA11980@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 95 15:48:27 MDT Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199506251934.NAA03700@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jun 25, 95 01:34:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > One additional problem is /etc/rc.local. I don't recall what is > shipped by default, but I seem to recall that there was some code in > that file that should be preserved in an upgrade. By its very nature, > it is hard to quantify its contents in an /etc/sysconfig way. > > Comments? Yeah. Nothing that can't be overwritten should be in /etc. The sysconfig stuf should go in /var. /var is per machine. We are getting ourselves signed up for a file system standard, it should be done correctly. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.