From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 22 2:23:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nomad.dataplex.net (nomad.dataplex.net [216.140.184.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760DA14A2F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 02:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from localhost (rkw@localhost) by nomad.dataplex.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id EAA72082; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 04:23:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) X-Authentication-Warning: nomad.dataplex.net: rkw owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 04:23:15 -0600 (CST) From: Richard Wackerbarth Reply-To: rkw@dataplex.net To: John Baldwin Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf, take 46! In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 22 Mar 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 22-Mar-99 Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > There is a problem with this approach. > > > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf defines ${rc_conf_files} > > However, I have no chance to override it before it is used. > > > > However, I fear that you need a bit more logic to allow the > > overriding of ${rc_conf_files}. > > Where are going to override it? If we use some other config file that gets > sucked in to /etc/defaults/rc.conf we'd have a config file included in > another config file that tells it what other config files to include. If this > keeps up we'll end up with a bunch of config files floating around that config > other config files, which will end up messy and confusing for newbies, IMHO. Unless someone comes up with a scheme that tracks set membership and allows us to add to that set, I think that we should stick to the "simple" approach. /etc/defaults/rc.conf defines ${rc_conf_files} to be "/etc/rc.conf" /etc/rc.conf is allowed to override this definition to include additional files such as "/etc/rc.conf.local" Those files get sucked in. - - - An alternate, and perhaps cleaner approach would be to always suck in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. Then suck in those files specified in ${additional_rc_conf_files}. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message