Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:45:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory Message-ID: <20020421154112.N17880-100000@master.gorean.org> In-Reply-To: <20020421.113046.131323596.imp@village.org>
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On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200204200256.g3K2uOu10038@sheol.localdomain>
> hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) writes:
> : IMHO, you muddy, if not nullify, the abstract altogether. You are advocating
> : copying this file down to /etc, and editing it. There goes the concept of
> : "overriding the values contained in this file".
>
> Yes. /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf are separated because we
> wanted to change the defaults from time to time.
Users hate this.
> I agree that copying /etc/defaults/rc.conf is a horrible idea. Down
> right stupid and should never be advocated. *EVER*. We had that
> paradigm in FreeBSD 1.x and 2.x and it *DID*NOT*WORK*. That's the whole
> reason that we separated things out into two files.
People keep leaving off the rest of the advice I gave, which is to
set the variables for the things you care about, and delete the rest. I
think this is perfectly reasonable advice. Relying on the defaults not
changing for things that are important to your local installation is
foolhardy, IMO.
--
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And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory."
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State of the Union, January 28, 2002
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