From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 27 13: 3: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from beach.silcom.com (beach.silcom.com [199.201.128.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C402714DAA for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:02:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from smarter.than.nu (pm1-11.vpop1.avtel.net [207.71.237.61]) by beach.silcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6FF41559 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:02:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/defaults (Was: Re: Out of file descriptors ??) In-Reply-To: <37767A35.6D9B1751@gorean.org> 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 A nice semi-solution to this problem of having to copy lines from defaults/rc.conf would be a good curses-based rc.conf configuration tool. It could read in a definition file (or this information could be embedded into comments in defaults/rc.conf), present a list of configuration knobs and their current values, give a description of each knob's implications, and have some knowledge about the range of acceptable values (e.g. boolean, int, string, list that expands a template into new config options i.e. network_interfaces and ifconfig_???). Anyone up for the job? :-) I was working on something like this for X11 a while back, that even parsed out and re-wrote the old-style rc.conf with original comments and formatting intact, but that project is currently on hold until I have enough functionality in my new widgets library. -- Brian Buchanan brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message