From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 19 15:37:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (zoot.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B1637B404 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3JMbRHW017397 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (dougb@localhost) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g3JMbR40017394 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:37:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zoot.corp.yahoo.com: dougb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:37:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: dougb@zoot.corp.yahoo.com To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: *** HEAD'S UP *** Message-ID: <20020419153704.M17393-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy, Apparently my last message wasn't clear enough, for which I apologize. In addition to the general, non-life-threatening changes to /etc I did recently, a few more fundamental things have changed as well, specifically to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Rather than focus on the specifics, I'd like to suggest a more general solution. I highly recommend backing up your existing rc.conf[.local], and copying /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf. Then, go through the whole file, and explicitly include your choices for anything that you care about, whether they are the defaults or not. In this way, you can be sure that the system will always behave the way you want it to. In addition to this, I generally include the settings that are specific to the individual machine (like hostname, gateway, ifconfig_) in /etc/rc.conf.local. That way it's easier to blat the rc.conf file periodically. I also added an option to mergemaster to compare your rc.conf[.local] stuff to what's in /etc/defaults/rc.conf after you're done updating. To take advantage of that, use 'mergemaster -C', or 'echo COMP_CONFS=yes >> .mergemasterrc'. What this won't show you is differences to the defaults that you don't have in /etc/rc.conf[.local]. For that, you're expected to pay attention to the diff of /etc/defaults/rc.conf as you install it. :) Any questions, comments, or suggestions... fire away. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message