From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 11 06:38:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA24600 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:38:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA24573 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:38:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (tiburon [158.227.6.111]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA03643 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:37:58 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <36C2EB45.11C6DBA7@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:37:57 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dept. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What I don't like from the new "rc.conf" approach is the name "rc.conf" ;-). I think that the old "sysconfig" should come back. Then, there would be a /etc/defaults/sysconfig (R/O), and a /etc/sysconfig (storing the site-specific config). These files would contain _only_ variable assignments. The /etc/rc.conf script would be R/O too; it would read /etc/defaults/sysconfig and /etc/sysconfig in turn. Furthermore, both "sysconfig"s could be splitted into several files (net, nfs, time, console, isdn, etc.). In this case, another directory should be created under /etc (named "siteconfig", for example), which would be the site-specific counterpart of /etc/defaults. My 0.02 euro, -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@es.FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message