From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 16:33:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06940 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06928 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:33:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA56047; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:33:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:33:21 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: jack cc: Matthew Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, jack wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > I think it's a *BAD* idea to change rc.conf operation for the 3.1 > > distribution. Bad Bad Bad. > > I have to agree. Let's not forget that there are over 30 man > pages with references to /etc/rc.conf. Lets not forget that with the latest round of changes, the rc.conf in 3.1 will behave exactly as it has in the past. Think about it. rc.conf was a "touchees" file in the past and it is a "touchees" file now. The only difference is the addition of a "no touchees" reference copy in /etc/defaults that gets sourced before rc.conf so any essential variables introduced in an upgrade will have a safety fallaback in case you don't properly upgrade your rc.conf. The detour with rc.conf.site *did* change the way rc.conf was used. That was Bad Bad Bad and has just been fixed. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message