From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 7 13:41:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18956 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:41:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (b133.mat.net [206.246.122.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18946 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:41:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA00340; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 16:38:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 16:38:45 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Matthew Dillon cc: Mike Smith , Andreas Klemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some woes about rc.conf.site In-Reply-To: <199902072116.NAA26516@apollo.backplane.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 Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > My opinion is that since we have /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local, we might > as well use /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.local the same way -- that > is, just as /etc/rc should not be touched by anyone, neither should > /etc/rc.conf be touched by anyone. > > sysinstall ( and any other GUI configurator ) should mess with > /etc/rc.conf.site > > The user messes with /etc/rc.conf.local > > Perhaps the problem is that we are simply naming these things badly. > Frankly, I would rather get rid of rc.conf.site entirely and just leave > rc.conf and rc.conf.local -- and have sysinstall mess with rc.conf.local. You don't think we should have different rc files for admining: 1) local options to system stuff, like setting net stuff, and 2) local ports-oriented options, that control things outside of of the base FreeBSD system? It looks like you don't draw that line, right? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message