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Date:      Thu, 11 May 1995 12:45:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: bug in /usr/src/etc/rc (netstart)
Message-ID:  <199505111945.MAA11377@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505111725.TAA06025@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at May 11, 95 07:25:19 pm

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> 
> I guess it is worth putting a BIG note near the beginning of /etc/rc,
> /etc/netstart and similar places that now /etc/sysconfig takes care
> of a lot of things.  People coming from 1.1 or early 2.0 installations
> might forget this and try to do the wrong thing (such as leaving
> the hostname in /etc/myname, the defaultrouter in /etc/defaultrouter,
> etc.)

I find that the type of people who do that are also the type of people
who don't read big warning notes.  Perhaps something in the release
notes (an ``upgrade'' section) should cover this.



-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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