From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 25 20:50:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA02442 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA02434 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id WAA28157; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 22:50:24 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma028116; Sat Apr 26 03:50:22 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970425225302.00b22474@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 22:53:03 -0500 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: /etc/netstart bogons.. Cc: Curt Sampson , hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:09 PM 4/24/97 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >OK, I haven't done anything with DEFAULT so far but here's the >rest of my changes relative to FreeBSD. How about " " for no flags and then have default=NO for "" checking? >There are two files added (rc.conf and rc.network) and two files >deleted (sysconfig and netstart), so it's probably easiest for folks >to move the two deleted files out the way and unpack the attached shar >file into their /usr/src/etc directories, applying the patches as well >and then installing the relevant bits into /etc. You should then >customize the new rc.conf file to taste using the old sysconfig file >as a guide. I didn't like netstart in BSDi, even if it was nice to be separate, and sysconfig didn't make BSD sense to me in FBSD. >If this meets with general approval, I then (boy scout's honor) >promise to also write (and commit with the rest of the stuff) an >rc.conf(8) man page which contains the much longer and more detailed >information that sysconfig used to but which also made sysconfig >unreadable and that much more difficult to customize. IMHO, all the comments *did* make it unreadable, which I supposed would make people read the man page (right, why is RTFM used? ;) and make bulletproofing things less of a problem. Have to admit the comments are nice, but if they are in the man page, but kept reasonably short. After all there are pages for what rc is setting. I grew up (yah) on BSDi, so I'm used to it. >Everything is also relative to 2.2.1 here since that's what I test >with. I'd like it to go into -current, naturally, but I first have to >check and see if any new knobs have been added there recently. > >Thanks! FreeBSD folk - please do test this! Thanks also to the >NetBSD folk for bringing their rc.conf stuff to my attention. It was >definitely a kick in the right direction (and this represents just my >first draft, we can add more of their features like DEFAULT and such >as we evolve this). Pass for now. My noodle needs rest and diffs make me dizzy. %-S ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990