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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors at boot 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:48:56 GMT."
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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:48:56 GMT, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> >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?

Not if you remove rc.conf from rc_conf_files in the copied file, no.
However, this isn't recommended practice, because you lose the power of
the whole defaults directory idea.

As Mark Ovens mentioned, /etc/rc.conf really is for overrides only.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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