From owner-freebsd-security Thu Feb 22 6:50: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ra.upan.org (ra.upan.org [204.107.76.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E28937B491 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 06:50:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Received: from ocsinternet.com (localhost.upan.org [127.0.0.1]) by ra.upan.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1MEmAk00420; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:48:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Message-ID: <3A9526AA.19D00D47@ocsinternet.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:48:10 -0500 From: Mikel King Organization: OCS Internet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Adam Laurie , Nick Sayer , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.firewall fixes References: <200102202005.f1KK5kv83619@medusa.kfu.com> <3A93A9CC.BC1D39FB@algroup.co.uk> <3A93C2FB.3E160997@ocsinternet.com> <3A94AE05.965BC5E4@gorean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org rc.conf.local and rc.local weree deprecated around the release of 4.x. Of course you can still use them if you really want...but I think rc.conf is a better choice since it's already skagged into rc.firewall and it keeps everything centralized. Cheers, Mikel Doug Barton wrote: > Mikel King wrote: > > > > Yes I would tend to agree that it would be rather handy to have the config > > outside of the rc.firewall, and rc.conf is a likely candidate. Presently do > > this manually because I use have several scripts that use these common vars > > like 'oif' and for maintenance purposes it's easier to have a central point > > for their assignment. > > What's wrong with /etc/rc.conf.local ? > > Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message