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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:52:57 +0200
From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr1@flash.net>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: rc.conf vs rc.conf.local
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On Jun 24, "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr1@flash.net> wrote:
> 
> I was thinking about how "hard" it is to continually modify rc.conf
> as it is being updated....
> 
> I was wondering if anyone can see a problem with treating rc.conf
> as a set of defaults, and making local overrides in rc.conf.local.

Is there a different way to do 
local modifications, at all ?  :)

Regards, STefan