From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 26 11:53:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169FD37B479; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9QIrUn98840; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:53:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA43056; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:53:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010261853.MAA43056@harmony.village.org> To: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Cc: Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:34:09 BST." <20001026193409.A14486@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20001026193409.A14486@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <21367.972424567@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:53:30 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001026193409.A14486@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Nik Clayton writes: : On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:56:07PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: : > [redirected to just -current; I'm not sure what this has to do with -net] : > : > > I agree. I've been using them for a while on my dog slow Windows CE : > > machine. There were some minor issues when they were first committed : > > to NetBSD on some platforms (due to a too early use of ps and some : > > brokeness in ps on pmax, for example), but these were quickly : > > resolved. : > : > So, who wants to do a proof-of-concept implementation for -current : > which integrates with our existing rc.conf mechanism? In order to : > obey POLA, we should at least have the separate scripts switch off the : > same knobs whenever possible. : : As far as I'm aware, Neil Blakey-Milner is doing just that (I'm surprised : he hasn't said so himself, although I think this week/fortnight's quite : hectic for him in the real world). I'm looking forward to it. NetBSD does have an rc.conf already and they have recently moved to the two teir /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf after much gnashing of teeth and beating of breasts... I suspect that if we move to their rc files, a similar gnashing of teeth and beating of breasts will be played out in the mailing lists. :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message