From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 28 22:29:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13414 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:29:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from burka.rdy.com (burka.rdy.com [205.149.163.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13405 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@burka.rdy.com) Received: (from dima@localhost) by burka.rdy.com (8.8.8/RDY&DVV) id WAA20340; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808290528.WAA20340@burka.rdy.com> Subject: Re: make.conf In-Reply-To: <199808282216.WAA00640@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Aug 28, 1998 10:16:48 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dima@best.net, mike@smith.net.au, dillon@backplane.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, committers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Class: Fast Organization: HackerDome Reply-To: dima@best.net From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL45 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Smith writes: > In the following scenario, it requires an audit as Matt mentioned: > > - You perform an operating system upgrade, which updates /etc/rc.conf > - The upgrade adds a new service to the standard system startup > - The update of /etc/rc.conf enables this new service > - You do not want this new service enabled > > Because the existing rc.conf.local doesn't know about the new service, > it won't contain an override to turn it off. > > This case is likely to be so rare that while it's worth bearing in > mind, I can't see it as something to preclude using an automated update > tool. Well, I think all the new services should be disabled by default. An upgrade tool should mention about adding a new service but it should keep it disabled. If user will want to enable this service - he can do it manually. > > > -- > \\ 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 > > -- dima