From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 12 4:38:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDAB37B945 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 04:38:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p05-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.134]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id UAA03522; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:36:52 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <396C5871.FEC9E0A9@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:37:21 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: clefevre@citeweb.net Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: etc/rc.d & things... References: <14695.51428.314772.426883@guru.mired.org> <14697.31325.422020.803101@guru.mired.org> <3969D84A.D23A84B6@newsguy.com> <3dlhpybs.fsf@pc166.gits.fr> <396ACCF7.B8A49A5@newsguy.com> <4s5xrmpi.fsf@pc166.gits.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > > Non-centralized configuration is frowned upon. Having to find which file > > has something, or having to read through multiple files to understand > > how the system is configured is a disadvantage wrt to the present > > system. > > not so difficult if a command do that for you. (show, change, start and stop) Commands limit you in awkward ways. Hell, AIX has commands to do anything with the configuration you might want, but that has not prevented people from hating it... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org _DES: The Book of Bruce has only one sentence in it, and it says "the actual directives of my cult are left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck." jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part? EE: OK, I made that part up. EE: I figured it should sound a bit more cheery than how Bruce initially dictated it to me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message