From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 10 10:21:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragonstar.dhs.org (dsl-028-a.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.161.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E7D37B724; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:21:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (jonsmith@localhost) by dragonstar.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA96490; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:21:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:21:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Smith To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Dan O'Connor" Subject: Re: Previous Message on /etc/defaults In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Err, all the options are still listed in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and are > documented in the rc.conf manpage (or should be). > True. And it actually looks more detailed than what's in the rc.conf files. :) It also means flipping windows. While for 'experts' and those of us who've been using this a few years, yes, it's doable or even second nature. It also means cut-and-paste, which is not as easy as simply replacing the text. > > As I said, my suggestion also makes it quite obvious that the defaults are > > just that. > > Except that in practice your suggestion would result in many users breaking > their systems. As it is now in -current and 4-stable, you can copy the > existing defaults/rc.conf into /etc and edit it if you want. > Breaking the system? Yes, I can see that. *scratches his head* When you remove win.ini, on teh other hand, you get better performance... Sorry, i just don't buy that. If you remove files in /etc, or /boot, or /usr/local/etc, you break things. I can see the point in redundancy on rc.conf, but it just leaves me feeling a bit quesy to think about this argument. > > j. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message