Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 10:27:21 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changes to rc files Message-ID: <199508231427.KAA02109@healer.com>
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> swap the sysconfig file around to change the identity of the system
> based on where I am.
While were on the subject of reorganizing /etc <grin>, what do people
think of changin the names of all the startup files so that they start
with "rc". Something like:
rc
rc.daemon
rc.i386
rc.local
rc.netstart
rc.ppp
rc.serial
rc.sysconfig
The great benefit this gives is that I can just "grep foo rc*" to search
for something related to startup...
Also, in reorganizing /etc, I made an "/etc/inet" directory, where I
put all networking specific information. Thus:
All the /etc/rc files use these for the "set foo = `cat /etc/inet/fooish` "
domain, fullname, def_route, ipaddr.ed0, sysname
These have symbolic links in /etc for the things that look there:
named.boot, resolv.conf, hosts, networks, screend.conf
Everything else is told to find their files there:
root.cache, hosts.namedb, rev.namedb, local.namedb, smb.conf
This is really helpful since when I change to a different network, all I
have to do is edit (or swap out for multiple configs) the files in this
one directory (and maybe /etc/ppp) and I'm all set. Really crucial when
you are cranking out FreeBSD network servers, so everything is in one place.
-coranth
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