From owner-cvs-etc Tue Mar 21 08:07:13 1995 Return-Path: cvs-etc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA23758 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:07:13 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA23749; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:07:10 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA17234; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:07:01 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id IAA05239; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:04:37 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199503211604.IAA05239@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc sysconfig netstart rc To: jkh@freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:04:36 -0800 (PST) Cc: CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@time.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503211520.HAA17188@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 21, 95 07:20:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1058 Sender: cvs-etc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > jkh 95/03/21 07:20:50 > > Modified: etc netstart rc > Added: etc sysconfig > Log: > Begin a long-overdue cleanup of this whole mess. > > 1. Move all system configuration variables into /etc/sysconfig > 2. Adapt other files to use it. > 3. Add a host of new variables for micro-managing your system in various > ways. For 2.1, /etc/sysconfig will be machine-edited so that the user > doesn't even have to care at all about the various funny names we picked. Your assuming that a human will never have to go in to this file and muck around, bad assumption IMHO. > 4. Enable dset. We won't get it debugged if we never use it, and no one > has said anything negative about it yet, so here goes! > 5. Try to use one consistent style throughout. > Other than my one complaint, thanks, this should help to centralize a lot of my hacks in /etc. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD