From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 26 02:59:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA05964 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 02:59:37 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA05948 ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 02:59:33 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA03484; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 02:59:41 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506260959.CAA03484@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP To: dzerkel@feephi.phofarm.com (Danny J. Zerkel) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 02:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199506260304.XAA06005@feephi.phofarm.com> from "Danny J. Zerkel" at Jun 25, 95 11:04:24 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: 1045 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > Well, this has been simplified to a great extent by /etc/sysconfig. > > It's my intention that ALL of the mutable files in /etc eventually > > collapse to just /etc/sysconfig, and there's never any reason at all > > for the user to modify the others. > > Well, I regularly turn of lpd... but that's in rc, so I guess a flag > for that would help. A knob flag will be added... along with an args variable since lpd also takes options and arguments that some sites need to set. > How would we handle things that currently I put > into rc.local (httpd)? Wouldn't, httpd is not part of the base system and should in no way be handled by the base system. > There are a bunch of config files in /etc, I don't think all can be > collapsed. /etc/remote, /etc/ttys, come to mind. Already confirmed what he really meant, see other reply from Jordan to me. > Good goal, though. :-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD