From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 1 10:25:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28043 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from train.tgci.com ([205.185.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28035 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:25:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emilyd ([206.250.85.68]) by train.tgci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA29118; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:57:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199706011757.KAA29118@train.tgci.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Riley J. McIntire" To: Nadav Eiron Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:23:01 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place. Reply-to: chaos@tgci.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Sat, 31 May 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > More and more people are trying to use GENERIC as a template for their > > own kernels and they're losing, of course, because generic sets many > > limits (like max children or open files) too low. > > > [snip] > > > Meanwhile, of course, the users continue to use GENERIC (or worse, > > LINT) as their only available guides and they continue to walk off > > cliffs, year after year. > > As a newbie climbing a cliff with broken legs I cound have sworn that LINT was recommended as a template in the docs. [snip] > This sure will save bandwidth on -questions, and many frustrated newbies > from climbing up on walls. > Cliffs, not walls...;-) Why not post a few working templates right now on the web site? > > > > Jordan > > > > Yet another $.02 (I think someone is getting rich here collecting these > cents :-) ). > > Nadav Could someone send me a config for a low to moderate volume web/mail/name server? I'm getting a little nervous. ;-) Thanks, Riley