From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 2 12:57:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D70337B400; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 12:57:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=den2) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Red Hack)) id 16X7E7-00042V-00; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 09:57:35 +1300 Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 09:57:35 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time) From: Juha Saarinen To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: Terry Lambert , Wilko Bulte , Paul Fardy , "current@FreeBSD.ORG" , "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task In-Reply-To: <20020202145852.6781C407B@i8k.babbleon.org> Message-ID: X-Message-Flag: "Yummy... a Windows box! Hack! Hack! Hack!" X-X-Sender: juha@vimfuego.saarinen.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > No, it's not, because it still maintains a separation between "system" > control (rc.conf) and application control (/var/packges). > > It's more like config.sys or something . . . Much more than that. The registry also stores dynamic data, such as performance counters. It's also "remotable", for centralised management. -- Juha Take off every sig! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message