Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:02:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/defaults (Was: Re: Out of file descriptors ??) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906271229060.78068-100000@smarter.than.nu> In-Reply-To: <37767A35.6D9B1751@gorean.org>
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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
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