From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 14 12:56:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06624 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06616; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:56:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA34149; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:59:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:59:06 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Harlan Stenn cc: Brian Somers , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Eivind Eklund , "Joseph T. Lee" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gratuitous name changes (was: libalias and ident) In-Reply-To: <7351.916345622@brown.pfcs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Harlan Stenn wrote: > One of the few things that irritate me (and I now expect) is that every so > often, Somebody is going to change Something in the PPP configuration and > I'll need to go in to my box (and the boxes at all of my customer sites) > and reconfigure ppp.conf. > > It's why I always update my boxes fist, get a clean compile, update my > customers' boxes, get things stable on my end, and then pray I got > everything right on my customers' boxes. While this is only an issue for > my customers that use PPP, since I'm connecting to them over that link, if > something goes wrong... Didn't someone mention keeping -alias around for a while as a depreciated, but backward compat flag? (I think it was Jordan makes sense to me.) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current > H > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message