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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:21:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>,
        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c 
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I agree with Jordan
rc.conf should be totally static.
of course you could always work out a method to OVERRIDE the values set
there is they are left at default or are not set.
rc.network could do that sort of thing but  leave rc.conf alone.


On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :
> :>     Do people have any objections to running ifconfig and route inside
> :>     /etc/rc.conf to 'calculate' a machine-specific rc.conf.local path ?
> :
> :I do - I like the fact that rc.conf is a "passive" mechanism and can
> :be included multiple times (or trivially overridden in rc.conf.local)
> :since it only defines variables and has no other "side effects."
> :
> :- Jordan
> 
>     What if we added a sysctl variable to the diskless subsection to make 
>     the IP address more readily accessible.  Then rc.conf would only have to
>     run a sysctl ( which should be acceptable ).  That would avoid having
>     to run route and ifconfig.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>
> 
> 


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