From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 23 10:43:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from speed.rcc.on.ca (radio163.mipps.net [205.189.197.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 343DD152E8 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tr49986@rcc.on.ca) Received: from a35 ([207.164.233.96]) by speed.rcc.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA23596; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:00:00 -0500 Message-ID: <000f01be755c$8e12f280$60e9a4cf@a35.my.intranet> From: "RT" To: , "Chas" Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf, take 46! Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:05:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I like it too... No code anywhere than needed. After all, if /etc/rc doesn't exist, everything's messed up anyway, so you mideswell make it more dependent upon that script. -----Original Message----- From: Chas To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: rkw@dataplex.net ; current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 5:12 PM Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf, take 46! >Now that sounz like a simple solution.:)) Paul... >> > >> > An alternate, and perhaps cleaner approach would be to always suck in >> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. Then suck in those >> > files specified >> > in ${additional_rc_conf_files}. >> >> I still think we're chasing our tails with all this configuration stuff. >> >> Why can't /etc/rc load /etc/defaults/rc.conf followed by /etc/rc.conf (if >> present). Don't have anything in /etc/defaults.rc.conf except default >> variable settings. >> >> The local admin can do what the hell they want in /etc/rc.conf, including >> putting in a bit of script to load /etc/rc.conf.local >> /etc/rc.conf.flavour_of_month etc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message