From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 26 08:30:46 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA24093 for current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 08:30:46 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA24060 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 08:30:25 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA16201; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 16:28:24 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199507261528.QAA16201@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 16:28:23 +0100 (BST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9507251419.AA06573@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jul 25, 95 10:19:38 am Reply-to: paul@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 729 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Garrett Wollman who said > > < said: > > I don't like the idea of /etc/sysconfig.local as a dumping-ground for > third-party software configuration options. Either there should be a > third-party section in the real /etc/sysconfig, or there should be a > separate config file for each service (/etc/rc.local.d/$service.cf?). > I lean towards the former. Anything wrong with /usr/local/etc ? I don't like third party packages touching /etc period. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)