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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:56:08 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>, Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, bsddiy@163.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: import NetBSD rc system 
Message-ID:  <200106111856.f5BIu8V39651@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:54:33 PDT." <200106111854.f5BIsX728995@earth.backplane.com> 
References:  <200106111854.f5BIsX728995@earth.backplane.com>  <20010611174717.A77956@laptop.6bone.nl> <1795096378.20010611154930@163.net> <3B2484EA.B1F04812@DougBarton.net> <200106111800.f5BI0il25446@billy-club.village.org> 

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In message <200106111854.f5BIsX728995@earth.backplane.com> Matt Dillon writes:
:     I kinda like our scheme... at least I like the single monolithic
:     /etc/rc.conf file.  It makes maintaining and installing machines 
:     utterly trivial whereas having a billion little files each with
:     one or two options in them makes maintaining and installing machines
:     rather difficult.  I sure hope nobody is advocating doing away with
:     the monolithic capabilities of /etc/rc.conf!

While it has been a few months since I looked at the NetBSD stuff, it
too has a single rc.conf-like file to control things.  Its main
feature is that you can add new "modules" easily.

Warner

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