From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 24 5:12:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4EB37B423; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 05:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA32744; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:03:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008241203.IAA32744@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Nik Clayton" Cc: "FreeBSD Stable List" Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:11:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20000824101352.A48334@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:13:52 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: >> What was the reason for these daemons been set to not start? > >Now, if you have an empty /etc/rc.conf then (in theory) no network services >are running. This also means that if you want to find out what services are >started at boot time you only have to look in /etc/rc.conf, rather than >having to look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf as well. Then shouldn't we add the current programs which get started to /etc/rc.conf? >> Wouldn't this "break" working machines? > >Only if you (1) Are running -current, and (2) don't read the mailing lists >and the diffs mergemaster shows you. > >If both (1) and (2) are true then you shouldn't be running -current anyway. I know this is currently in "current", but won't this eventually make it to stable? francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message