Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:39:23 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, Rich Wilson <wk633@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors at boot Message-ID: <19991223183923.C327@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912231446170.20874-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <19991223122425.B9183@hades.hell.gr> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912231446170.20874-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:48:56PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
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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"
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> 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?
>
The usual advice I see here (which I follow myself) is to simply copy
any *lines* you wish to alter from /etc/defaults/rc.conf to
/etc/rc.conf and edit them there (that's what sysinstall does when,
for example, you use it to configure networking). This way your
/etc/rc.conf is a sort of personal diff file for /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> -jm
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