Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:32:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. Message-ID: <199902092332.PAA01048@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:31:47 PST." <199902092331.PAA61855@apollo.backplane.com>
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> : > :Personally, I have to side with Matt. > :I like to have ALL of the files in one directory. > :That way I can "grep ntpd /etc/rc*" and find ALL the line that are likely > :to affect it. Moving some of the files into another directory just > :complicates things. > : > :I like the idea of having all the "default knobs" in one file. > :I recommend /etc/rc.conf.defaults > > I like this idea ( /etc/rc.conf.defaults ) better then > /etc/defaults/rc.conf. As Jordan pointed out, this gets very messy very quickly. > I don't think we should have an /etc/defaults/ directory, but if > it is insisted on then *ALL* the read-only files should be moved into > it, not just one of them. All of the files that currently mix read-only and read-write data will, ideally, be split so that the read-only content goes into /etc/defaults, and the "local changes" stay in /etc. The next big candidate for this is make.conf, but that will require careful testing first. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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