Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 19:08:11 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Paul Fardy <pdfardy@mac.com>, "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task Message-ID: <3C5CA99B.D05A62AC@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0202030956010.1840-100000@den2>
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Juha Saarinen wrote: > > No, it's not, because it still maintains a separation between "system" > > control (rc.conf) and application control (/var/packges). > > > > It's more like config.sys or something . . . > > Much more than that. The registry also stores dynamic data, such as > performance counters. It's also "remotable", for centralised management. I'm pretty sure the article "It's" was referring to "rc.conf". FreeBSD's rc.conf can't store dynamic data, and it can't be centrally managed, since there's no programmatic API to it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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