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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. 
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:>     Now we have /etc/defaults/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/rc.conf.local.
:>     Considerably less simple and quite unobvious.
:
:Until you have to upgrade to the latest set of "knobs"; that problem
:is something I think people are not focusing sufficiently on in
:commenting only on the downsides of this.
:
:- Jordan

    /etc/rc.conf       - no touchee
    /etc/rc.conf.local - touchees

    People are still stuck in the 'I want to edit /etc/rc.conf' mode of
    thinking.

    I say that if you intend to put the /etc/rc.* scripts in /etc, and
    make them read-only ( /etc/rc, /etc/rc.network, /etc/rc.firewall, etc... )
    then /etc/rc.conf should stay where it is and also be read-only.

    If you want to put 'read only' junk into /etc/defaults, then why aren't
    you also sticking /etc/rc, /etc/rc.network, /etc/rc.firewall, etc etc etc
    into /etc/defaults ?  It makes no sense to have an /etc/defaults/ 
    directory if you are still mixing read-only and user-modifiable files
    in /etc.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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