From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 18 13: 3: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yadt.co.uk (yadt.demon.co.uk [158.152.4.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BC2937B401 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 34491 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2001 20:02:44 -0000 Received: from gattaca.local.yadt.co.uk (HELO mail.gattaca.yadt.co.uk) (qmailr@10.0.0.2) by xfiles.yadt.co.uk with SMTP; 18 Sep 2001 20:02:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 55692 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Sep 2001 20:02:44 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:02:44 +0100 From: David Taylor To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to set hw.ata.wc Message-ID: <20010918210244.D961@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@freebsd.org References: <3BA77880.91744255@calcon.net> <20010918094327.U1513@johncoop.MSHOME> <20010918185415.L27375@mail.webmonster.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010918185415.L27375@mail.webmonster.de>; from karsten@rohrbach.de on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 18:54:15 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > John Merryweather Cooper(john_m_cooper@yahoo.com)@2001.09.18 09:43:27 +00= 00: > > An OS upgrade SHOULD only touch /boot/defaults/loader.conf. >=20 > why is there /boot/loader.conf.local, then? >=20 boot.loader(5): /boot/loader.conf user defined settings. /boot/loader.conf.local machine-specific settings for sites with a common loader.conf. So you can have a standard /boot/loader.conf across your site, but still deal with hardware/setup/etc differences. -- David Taylor davidt@yadt.co.uk --IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7p6hkfIqKXSsJ/xERAgSMAKC+aXsD4tx6MFnW1GO+NjhCiYJy4gCgpv2i LQ0FGPjhlmsA32D6PiU/6N4= =jYjQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message