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To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Splitting up sysinstall for some user services.. 
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:29:43 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> So I was thinking, wouldn't these utilities be good by themselves without
> sysinstal needing to be run? I don't plan on "breaking" up sysinstall into

Actually, I'm strongly headed towards removing them from sysinstall
again - this was a bogus evolutionary direction to go in, and I know
that now. ;-)

> Also - is sysinstall meant to edit rc.conf? Its probably been answered
> before, but I've noticed when the machine reboots, it doesn't know
> anything about its network configuration that I gave it a while back.

Hmmm - strange.  Yes, it's definitely meant to and seems to do so
just fine in my tests.

						Jordan