From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 21:26:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12541 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:26:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12536 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:26:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA06516; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:26:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:26:29 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: John Fieber cc: Matthew Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, John Fieber wrote: > Lets not forget that with the latest round of changes, the > rc.conf in 3.1 will behave exactly as it has in the past. Think > about it. rc.conf was a "touchees" file in the past and it is a > "touchees" file now. The only difference is the addition of a > "no touchees" reference copy in /etc/defaults that gets sourced > before rc.conf so any essential variables introduced in an > upgrade will have a safety fallaback in case you don't properly > upgrade your rc.conf. If /etc/rc.conf only contains changes from the defaults when man something_or_other tells the user to find and edit something_or_other_flags in /etc/rc.conf the entry won't be there to edit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message