From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 01:31:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFED16A420; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE5643D45; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D83131D70; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:01:56 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E1F6B85E4E; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:01:55 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:01:55 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Message-ID: <20060131013155.GB70488@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200601301233.k0UCXiKq085748@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060130123525.GD83922@FreeBSD.org> <20060130215816.GC91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060130235717.J95776@fledge.watson.org> <20060131005711.GB16211@comp.chem.msu.su> <20060131010335.GQ91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060131012003.GP1388@over-yonder.net> <20060131012211.GS91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060131012732.GQ1388@over-yonder.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060131012732.GQ1388@over-yonder.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Yar Tikhiy , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff , Robert Watson , cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Matteo Riondato Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults periodic.conf X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:58 -0000 --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 30 January 2006 at 19:27:32 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:52:11AM +1030 I heard the voice of > Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> Note the word "easily". Yes, you and I can do it. But we're not end >> users by any stretch of the imagination. > > Well, sure, but as you said: > >> That would mean something like a knob DFFLAGS in >> /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > > We have that; it's just that the knob is $daily_status_disks_df_flags, > and it's in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf (along with the rest of the > periodic config stuff). Egg on my face. I skimmed over that and it didn't hit me in the face (unlike the egg). > I s'pose it could be "easier" if we had some graphical tool or > something to manage periodic.conf, but we don't really have any > widespread ones for rc.conf either. No, but the one-stop nature of defaults/rc.conf is somewhat diluted by other defaults files. Why do we need more than one? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD3r4LIubykFB6QiMRAvY7AJ0UU2zYqW1lgCS28W/vga3fYgpCcwCggfuz zpBtPZ8V5HZwtXgDKpJW/38= =nCho -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI--