From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 2 11:00:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02285 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co ([168.176.15.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02277 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem11.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.41]) by ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA02608; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:01:44 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <3391D661.185A@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 13:06:57 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place. References: <9876.865110612@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Bla, bla,bla... > > Unfortunately, every time this issue has come up in the past it's also > followed a rather set course, in 3 distinct stages: > > 1. Someone starts off the discussion with "Well, why don't we just make up > some canned NEWS_SERVER, DESKTOP, WEB_SERVER and so on config files?... Someone previously offered a PERL script derived from Digital UNIX, that helped with the general configuration process. If we add the customed files, and take advantage of login.conf we can handle that issue without deviating much from the traditional method we use (and even like) everyday. FWIW. If someone says "Ohh.. these dirty scripts should be handled by my ready-to-commit implementation of SMIT", I won't object :-). > > How shall we conduct the debate this time? Same old same old, or > something genuinely productive? :-) > Same old same old. :-) Pedro. > Jordan