From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 8 09:46:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04047 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:46:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [194.77.0.18] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04040 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:46:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA23019; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:46:28 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id SAA37762; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:38:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:38:57 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Parag Patel Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg , Mike Smith , Andreas Klemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: some woes about rc.conf.site Message-ID: <19990208183857.A37441@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <199902080033.QAA51918@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902080033.QAA51918@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>; from Parag Patel on Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 04:33:00PM -0800 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 04:33:00PM -0800, Parag Patel wrote: > > Because rc.conf contains configuration variables, whereas rc contains > > commands to execute at boot time. > > Then I would suggest renaming rc.conf to be rc.vars or rc.config-vars > or something more appropriate than rc.conf, which like all the other > *.conf files is intended for local editing and maintainence. > > I do like the local overriding feature though. Yesterday I took out > all my local rc.conf mods into rc.conf.local and copied in the default > /usr/src/etc/rc.conf to /etc. The local mods are much smaller and much > more obvious as to what is different from the default setup. I think rc.conf and nothing else wasn't that bad. rc.conf was a _reference_ for all possible settings and easy manageable. And mergemaster is an excellent tool, to update it on demand. -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message