From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 11:21:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D5837B8FA for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id WAA11980; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:24:16 +0200 Message-ID: <393BEFB8.643DEA4@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 20:21:44 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john@day-light.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remove Unused Files? References: <000a01bfcf11$10e99380$0b00a8c0@dle> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Brooks wrote: > I'm running a colocated server on 3.3 and want to clean out unnecessary > files. Is there any reason I need to leave files like rc.atm, rc.diskless, > rc.firewall, rc.isdn, rc.pccard, rc.serial (serial ports are removed from > kernel), modems, etc. I realize they are not hurting anything, but then > again if they aren't working why keep them? Does anyone have an opinion on > cleaning up the filesystem? Well, nobody uses a spare tire -- until you got a flat one. Leave the stuff as is, for times when you'll need it desparately. I recently had problems with our leased line and was happy /etc/ppp/ppp.conf sat there smiling at me... Just my $0.02 -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message