From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 01:09:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68EC516A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:09:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3021F43D5C for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:09:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 20045 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2004 01:09:04 -0000 Received: from gate.funkthat.com (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Dec 2004 01:09:04 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (ryjgxw@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])iB1193GH040924; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:09:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id iB11907x040923; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:09:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:09:00 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Edwin Groothuis Message-ID: <20041201010900.GG19624@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , David O'Brien , stable@freebsd.org References: <41AA785C.5020304@math.missouri.edu> <20041129012340.GA24768@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041129012559.GB1541@k7.mavetju> <20041130230815.GB30089@hub.freebsd.org> <20041130232148.GC1538@k7.mavetju> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041130232148.GC1538@k7.mavetju> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG cc: David O'Brien Subject: Re: Beastie X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:09:05 -0000 Edwin Groothuis wrote this message on Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:21 +1100: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:08:15PM +0000, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:25:59PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:23:40PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > That option is already there, you didn't look hard enough. > > > > > > It's not really the easiest option to find kris... > > > > > > beastie_disable="YES" > > > > What do you suggest to make it easier? > > I already knew it has to do with the loader.conf, so I checked it > man page of it. I checked the DEFAULT SETTINGS section (because > it's an often asked question), and would put it in there: > > beastie_disable > (``NO'') If set to ``YES'', it will not show the ASCII > Beastie in the boot menu. I don't see how it's much different than all the options listed in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, it's clearly listed in /boot/defaults/loader.conf.. Though a man page entry is useful... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."