From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 11: 0:45 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 B5F1015718 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:00:42 -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 121DTd-00014r-00; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:00:41 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA22777; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:00:41 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:00:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Mark Ovens Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, Rich Wilson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors at boot In-Reply-To: <19991223183923.C327@marder-1> 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, Mark Ovens wrote: > >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. That's the way i *thought* it was supposed to work... -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message