From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 6:49: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8241015623 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 1219Y1-000Jg8-00; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:48:57 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20979; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:48:56 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:48:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: Rich Wilson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors at boot In-Reply-To: <19991223122425.B9183@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message