Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:28:53 -0500 From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com> To: bjk@freebsd.org Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl Message-ID: <CAJ5_RoACh-Qe7zxoBnJngB3kO4VW0x1yD9PDp8uuafwcnNAPHw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50D23961.7090803@delphij.net> References: <201212132332.qBDNWmK4037503@svn.freebsd.org> <50D1D720.80206@FreeBSD.org> <1355931456.1198.203.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <05CC5BAD-B968-4A7A-8097-A3344D970D63@mu.org> <1355932607.1198.206.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <F158CD10-B65B-4BBA-BCAD-6A52BC5C8FDF@mu.org> <50D2128A.7030205@delphij.net> <20121219210418.GA83983@stack.nl> <CAGH67wRTdBCZLq1R8-yqD6EBZ%2B=F228-0o_8TvU3b0KZD6vUfg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wT1L_9ia7-hdHST6q8iCdtmFifZcHixCQhBTiZEH8YAcw@mail.gmail.com> <50D23961.7090803@delphij.net>
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[cc trimmed] On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: > Irrelevant. Consider this (extreme) situation: someone distributes > several sets of sysctl values tuned for certain situations, like > tcp.conf, supermicro.conf, ... and wants to put them together in a > directory, it's useful to source from the directory without having to > do a generation of command line on boot, so when something goes wrong, > they just remove the pack rather than changing /etc/rc.conf. > Not a direct reply, but just noting that it can be *very* useful to have, e.g., a README or foo.old or foo.disabled file in the same directory where the "live" configuration files live. Always interpreting the full '*' glob is not always the best thing to do. -Ben Kaduk
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