From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 12:29:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AE8837B400 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 12:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC2F43E75 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 12:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g7OJT4D11926; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 15:29:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3D67E034.1040706@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 15:36:20 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jorge Mario G." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleting un-used files in /etc References: <20020824165800.73239.qmail@web13802.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jorge Mario G. wrote: > Hi > my question is > can I delete "useless" files in my /etc dir > with out any serious consequence??? > > because I have: dhclinet.conf <--- I dont use dhcp > also diskless files <-- I have HDs > the modems file <---- I dont have a modem! > rc.firewall > rc.isdn > rc.pccard > rc.serial > > and what about the dir ppp/ <--- I dont use PPP stuff! As long as you never want to use those apps, you can probably delete all those files, as well as rc.diskless and some others. You could probably go into /etc/defaults and delete some of those files as well. I don't know why you'd want to bother with it, though. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message