From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 21 14:44:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28230 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 14:44:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28223 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 14:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26409; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 15:44:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd026374; Sat Feb 21 15:43:53 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05014; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 15:43:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802212243.PAA05014@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: devfs persistence To: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 22:43:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802211919.MAA03325@narnia.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Feb 21, 98 12:19:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I would argue for build-time, and let you edit the class template > > data if you felt inclined to do it post-build. But I'm just being > > generous; there's no real reason for allowing that, especially in a > > first revision, since you always have rc.local. > > I don't think that class templates are generic enough. When I worked > for TCS at Cal Berkely, we had a machine that had everything but one > public tape drive locked in a cabinet. The system had one tape drive > for nightly dumps that only the sysadmins could access with a key. So, > as you can imagine, the permissions on the two devices were quite > different even though they were members of the same class. You must have missed the part about "rc.local". 8-) 8-). I know situations like this will exist, but 90% of the time the class approach will get the right answer by default, and another 8% of the time it will get the right answer by making a class policy change, and 2% of the time, well, it needs an rc.local. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message