From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 29 8:34:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E37637B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCA1193E5; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:34:24 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0TGYOS05672; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:34:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:34:24 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch Message-ID: <20010129103424.A65461@hamlet.nectar.com> References: <20010128101349.2c94539f.steveo@eircom.net> <20010128190227.B25222@spawn.nectar.com> <200101291631.LAA34977@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101291631.LAA34977@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:31:32AM -0500 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:31:32AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > I would rather that a separate configuration file be read, for example, > > with a list of shells(5) format files to consult. > > I would rather have a single file, located in a directory intended for > configuration files. Perhaps we could call it ``/etc/shells'' which > seems to be popular. > > There is no inherent virtue in having (some subset of) configuration > files on every partition. Actually I agree: I don't think anything needs to change. But, if a `feature' such as this _does_ go in, I don't want it to mean that there is a `new' format for `/etc/shells'. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message