From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 15:37:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26773 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26762 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01048; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:32:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902092332.PAA01048@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:31:47 PST." <199902092331.PAA61855@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:32:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : > :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