From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 30 18: 5:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DAC837B40A for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 18:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0215.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.215] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17DarK-0000e0-00; Thu, 30 May 2002 18:05:40 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF6CC39.BFC0A232@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:04:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Blankensteiner Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD daemon configurations redesign References: <00c601c2082d$bc531ff0$6800a8c0@rafter> <3CF6B300.145E0CD9@mindspring.com> <011201c20832$34404750$6800a8c0@rafter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > Terry, what do you think about the /etc/daemons/ suggestion? and the > other things about logging, user access file and so on? I think it's a bad idea to move to per program configuration files. I am reminded of "*.INI" in Windows 3.11. I also think it's bad to put things under /etc, since I think /etc should be read-only. I think that eventually, we will see all such things live under /var. I think it's an especially bad idea to put configuration data into files in subdirectories of /etc. I wouldn't have sent the configuration patches to the bind 9 folks, if I liked the factory defaults. 8-). I just wish that "flash" had caught on more, when the limiting factor was the number of times that it could be written, and the footprint of the resulting system. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message