From owner-freebsd-arch Fri May 31 16: 4:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.gnf.org (ns2.gnf.org [63.196.132.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C792437B401 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 16:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gnf.org (smtp.gnf.org [172.25.11.11]) by ns2.gnf.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4VMrCO13413; Fri, 31 May 2002 15:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gordon@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mail.gnf.org (Postfix, from userid 888) id 0265411E512; Fri, 31 May 2002 16:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gnf.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E9411A572; Fri, 31 May 2002 16:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:04:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: gordont@smtp.gnf.org To: Daniel Blankensteiner Cc: Terry Lambert , Subject: Re: FreeBSD daemon configurations redesign In-Reply-To: <01bf01c208ec$b11a7380$6800a8c0@rafter> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 31 May 2002, Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > I think it is easier to setup, let's say FTP, if you know ALL the config > files are in /etv/daemons/ftp. And the only place to start the ftpd from > when booting, is from /etc/daemons/startup. > When you add a user, you have to grand him or deny him access to > services. This you do by changing a lot of config files, maybe > forgetting some? So a central access file, is maybe not so bad. > When more services are added, /etc will "explode". We already got > /etc/mail and /etc/ssh, why not /etc/ftp? And then put them in > /etc/daemons/, it makes more sence. The problem with this is that the past 15 years of software doesn't work this way. It would take a fair amount of legwork to go through and hammer everything into this mold that would be FreeBSD-specific. I think it would be *very* difficult to get buy-in from all the projets out there that we might potentially use. It's a lot of work already keeping the contrib'ified sources in sync with the vendors, now imagine customizing everything so it was in /etc/daemons/* It's a lot of work to do what you propose. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message