From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 17 07:43:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02397 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:43:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles220.castles.com [208.214.165.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02391 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:43:28 GMT (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA00619; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804171440.HAA00619@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Bob Bishop cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Archie Cobbs Subject: Re: Discussion : Using DHCP to obtain configuration. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:34:09 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:40:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 6:34 am +0100 17/4/98, Mike Smith wrote: > >A new banner: "/etc must die!". > > I disagree. The more mechanism that minimally has to be working before the > system can boot, run a shell and talk to a network, the more nervous I get. > init is too complicated already. Just because Apallo did it 15 years ago > and Windows does it now, doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea. KISS There's no more mechanism required under any proposed death-of-etc scheme than there is now; you need init, the shell and ifconfig. I don't see anyone suggesting that these guys go away. On the other hand, concentrating much of the system configuration information out of various files in /etc into rc.conf has been a popular move. This takes it just a little further is all. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message