From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 10 06:57:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07632 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 06:57:44 -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 GAA07627 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 06:57:38 -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 JAA07780; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:55:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:55:49 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Sheldon Hearn cc: Richard Wackerbarth , John Fieber , Matthew Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. In-Reply-To: <93055.918634234@axl.noc.iafrica.com> 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 Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:42:40 CST, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > But, I would not expect/allow "defaults" to be the mechanism > > which includes the "real" values. > > Neither would I, but only because this hasn't been made clear in such > a way that guys like you and me "get it". I reckon that a comment in > /etc/rc.conf explaining that it's a set of values used to _override_ > those in /etc/defaults/rc.conf ought to do the trick, eh? That would probably work. I'm not really oppposed to this concept I'd just like to see it documented in the distribution so that the lists aren't over run with questions when it hits the street and those who haven't been `heads uped' by the lists are in a state of confusion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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