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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:48:56 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
Cc:        Rich Wilson <wk633@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Out of file descriptors at boot
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912231446170.20874-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991223122425.B9183@hades.hell.gr>

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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>One of the usual traps of copying /etc/defaults/rc.conf to your
>/etc/rc.conf is that /etc/defaults/rc.conf contains a line that says:
>
>which will reload rc.conf from within rc.conf !
>
>Try removing "rc.conf" from your rc_conf_files, making it:
>
>    rc_conf_files="/etc/rc.conf.local"

Isn't this a good way to trash the system?  Copying /defaults/rc.conf to
/etc/rc.conf?  Doesn't it make more sense to edit the new rc.conf down to
the minimum overrides for the defaults, rather than editing out that line?

-jm





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