From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 10 6:29:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from beelzebubba.sysabend.org (beelzebubba.sysabend.org [209.201.74.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67479153E2; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 06:29:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BE3E341B7; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:26:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6628D9BA6; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:26:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:26:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Alex Zepeda Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , current , multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: it's time... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: :* an rc.audio or rc.multimedia (this could perhaps contain some bt484 :related things). : :But if it goes into "the" rc.conf, that would mean that whenever it runs :at shutdown, it edits rc.conf; this isn't IMO a real great idea. :Anything automated (even sysinstall) editing rc.conf in any way shape or :form makes me leery because it's so much more error prone. Why not create such a file, and update it whenever a change is made? The settings are always in whatever state you last set them to, no matter when it was, and you don't have to race shutdown. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message