From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 1 12:21:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA29144 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 12:21:16 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA29138 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 12:21:14 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA09677; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 21:21:11 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA05931 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 21:21:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA04101 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 21:19:52 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507011919.VAA04101@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 21:19:52 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9507011901.AA08908@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 1, 95 01:01:13 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 848 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Th /etc file contents that you are backing up ar *not* configuration > files. You *DON'T* make changes to rc.* scripts to configure a machine > in a data driven environment. That's the beauty of a data-driven > environment: you just blow everything by selected data files. There is quite more system configuration stuff in /etc. Consider /etc/namedb, /etc/uucp, /etc/slip and /etc/uucp. All of them are site-specific. I've once been working with Data General machines, they have been specialized to be diskless bootable. Nevertheless, they considered /etc to be machine-dependant. (But they've made /bin a symlink to /usr/bin. I'm not sure _we_ want this, however.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)