From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 26 19: 9:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles527.castles.com [208.214.165.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A42150DA for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:09:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00428; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199906262321.QAA00428@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Ben Rosengart Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors ?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jun 1999 09:21:59 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:21:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > > > What is happening is /etc/defaults/rc.conf pulls in /etc/rc.conf, which then > > pulls in /etc/rc.conf .... repeat until we run out of file descriptors. > > I am not fond of the new defaults/rc.conf system. Used to be when I > wanted to modify something in rc.conf, I opened it up and changed the > value. Now I have to extract a line from defaults/rc.conf, put it in > rc.conf, and change it -- unless I don't understand the new setup > correctly. That makes more work for me, not less. What's the idea > here? Separation between the default initialisation values for parameters, and the actual values of parameters that specifically apply to your system. With only one file, you have no way of adding new (default) parameter values without forcing the user to manually merge the two. The minor extra amount of work in the short term is greatly offset in the long term. Try merging your local changes from a 2.2.x rc.conf with a new 3.x vintage rc.conf to see what I mean. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message