From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 7 13:53:48 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA12022 for current-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 13:53:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA12017 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 13:53:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA19290 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:53:42 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA24533 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:53:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id WAA22953 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:28:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612072128.WAA22953@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include utmp.h To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:28:58 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612071943.MAA27564@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Dec 7, 96 12:43:16 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > 2. The mutable components of /etc made more friendly to automated > > merges, this going as well for any system directory the average > > user is likely to modify. > > This is simply a matter of allowing someone to make the necessary > changes to seperate the data from the procedures which operate against > it, and seperating the procedures into logical units. > > At the lowest level, this means going to an rc.d mechanism for per > logical unit start/stop/status and ordering. You could support > run levels at the same time, but it's not strictly necessary. Huh? Am i in the wrong movie here? How do rc.d directories affect the locally changed files like /etc/host.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/uucp/system, /etc/sliphome/slip.hosts etc.? (s,/etc,/var/conf,g if you prefer this. It doesn't change the question a bit.) No, i don't really expect an answer to this either. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)