From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 19 16:42:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11107 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:42:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10829; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA12052; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:37:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:37:38 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Eivind Eklund , Studded , FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Discussion about script to update /etc, etc. In-Reply-To: <13495.890349767@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Hmmmmm. I don't like this. I think we need to simply bite the bullet > and make the user-mutable parts of the /etc configuration template > based, as Paul Traina first suggested about, oh, 2 years ago. :-) Speaking of which, why where the files in /usr/share/examples/etc removed sometime late '95? After much archive-searching, I can't even find the commit message referring to their removal, let alone any discussion... :( [There is a pr on this, hence my question :-] -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message