Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:50:43 -0500 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory Message-ID: <20020420195043.A49256@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020420144417.J15643-100000@master.gorean.org>; from DougB@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 02:59:03PM -0700 References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204201010170.5009-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20020420144417.J15643-100000@master.gorean.org>
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On Apr 20, at 02:59 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Jan Grant wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> That is indeed what I intended, if I did not make myself clear, I
> apologize. My rc.conf file on my gateway/mail server/file server box has
> 57 lines. My crash box has 26, about half of which are there just because
> I test /etc/rc* stuff a lot. /etc/defaults/rc.conf has 250+ variables.
OK. Thanks for the confirmation.
> > Yes; however, I'd rather do this once at install time than after every
> > buildworld.
>
> You should only have to do it once. Just do it for everything that
> you care about.
OK, this is one thing I'm still unclear about. "Do it once" when? After
a new install, and 'sysinstall' is done with it? Once after an upgrade?
Once after every upgrade, or just once after a new install?
How does this differ from current (i.e., 4.5-REL) practice? I'm still
at a loss as to how what you're prescribing is different from past and
present practices, given what [little] I've learned about your change
since my first post.
> > 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.
>
> Well, more and more people have expressed this same opinion.
> gshapiro already reverted the sendmail change, so the one left to discuss
> is inetd. At this point changing the default back seems to be the most
> reasonable course of action, even though everything in /etc/inetd.conf is
> off by default.
I honestly didn't notice whether 'inetd' was on or off by default in
4.5-REL; I told 'sysinstall' to do no networking at all, preferring to
set it up manually after the new install.
Is your change going to alter things to the point where I won't "be at
home" doing this, should I choose to?
FWIW, I don't run inetd on most systems. Nothing in there I usually want
enabled, but a lot of folk might, for 'ftpd', if nothing else, so this
isn't an issue for me [usually, but it might be?].
I'm almost with you, just tolerate me a little bit longer,
Dave
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