From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 21 10:31:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3A337B416 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3LHVDH67696 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:31:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3LHVCb14008 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:31:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:30:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020421.113046.131323596.imp@village.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200204200256.g3K2uOu10038@sheol.localdomain> References: <20020419225855.E7E575D05_ptavv.es.net@ns.sol.net> <20020419181021.X18267-100000_zoot.corp.yahoo.com@ns.sol.net> <200204200256.g3K2uOu10038@sheol.localdomain> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <200204200256.g3K2uOu10038@sheol.localdomain> hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) writes: : IMHO, you muddy, if not nullify, the abstract altogether. You are advocating : copying this file down to /etc, and editing it. There goes the concept of : "overriding the values contained in this file". Yes. /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf are separated because we wanted to change the defaults from time to time. I agree that copying /etc/defaults/rc.conf is a horrible idea. Down right stupid and should never be advocated. *EVER*. We had that paradigm in FreeBSD 1.x and 2.x and it *DID*NOT*WORK*. That's the whole reason that we separated things out into two files. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message