Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 03:11:21 -0800 From: "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. Message-ID: <19990305031121.A91934@gramarye.halcyon.com> In-Reply-To: <24234.918598869@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 02:21:09PM -0800 References: <24234.918598869@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 02:21:09PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Rather that listen to people wail over the next few months, it was > decided instead to go to a slight variation on the previous theme in > hopes that more people will be happy with the compromise. > > In essence, what used to be everything in /etc/rc.conf has moved to > /etc/defaults/rc.conf and this file takes care of including > (optionally) /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.local. This means that you > can go back to editing /etc/rc.conf again and the expected things will > happen, though those interested in the full set of tunables will still > need to look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf (which, like all defaults to > eventually live in that directory, will be freely upgradable by the > system). > > Since that made rc.conf.site obsolete, it was taken out of the > configuration. Please move it to rc.conf on your system, should you > be one of those folks who installed from an earlier snapshot and are > now updating your /etc from -current or -stable sources (not likely to > be all that many people). This change will also be in 3.1. > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message Any chance of something similar being done for make.conf? I've gotten in the habit of only adding stuff at the end, but it's still a pain copying file chunks back and forth. (Well, just "forth" I guess, no "back") ________________________________________________________________________ William R. Somsky wrsomsky@halcyon.com Physicist, Baritone, Guitarist http://www.halcyon.com/wrsomsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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