From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 22 00:51:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA12925 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:51:00 -0700 Received: from efn.efn.org (efn.org [198.68.17.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA12919 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:50:59 -0700 Received: from nike (haus.efn.org) by efn.efn.org (4.1/smail2.5/05-07-92) id AA19242; Sat, 22 Jul 95 00:49:47 PDT Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:58:41 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney X-Sender: gurney_j@nike To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD In-Reply-To: <199507220505.WAA14561@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Jul 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > What suggestion? Provide an upgrade path? Trust me, we're working > > on it! :-) > > > > Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. > > The suggestions refer to (1) seperate the configuration data > > from the executable scripts such as rc, rc.local, netstart, ...etc. > > The advantage of seperating the configuration data from the executable scripts > > is easier to debug for both the user and the developer. > > This is work in process. If you look at the 2.0.5R versions of rc, and > netstart at the top they have clear markers saying that if for some > reason you need to modify this file we would like to know about it. does that mean that I should tell you guys about my addion of the xfs, xdm, pcnfsd, and bootp stuff to /etc/rc and /etc/sysconfig? I added them in the tradion of the other options... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)