From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 26 11:04:29 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA03143 for current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:04:29 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA03131 ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:04:26 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA25920; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:04:17 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507261804.LAA25920@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig To: paul@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507261528.QAA16201@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jul 26, 95 04:28:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1074 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. Yes, there is something wrong with /usr/local/etc, that would be imposing a structure on one place (/usr/local) we said we would absolutely not do that to in the base system. I don't like third party packages touching _anything_ in the base system, and we have gone to a lot of work to minimize it. Now we just need to cross the last few hurdles. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD