Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:57:39 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory Message-ID: <4.3.2.20020421184614.00c8d740@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <20020421154112.N17880-100000@master.gorean.org> References: <20020421.113046.131323596.imp@village.org>
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At 03:45 PM 4/21/02 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > People keep leaving off the rest of the advice I gave, which is to >set the variables for the things you care about, and delete the rest. I >think this is perfectly reasonable advice. Relying on the defaults not >changing for things that are important to your local installation is >foolhardy, IMO. Another good idea is to diff /etc/defaults.rc.conf src/etc/defaults/rc.conf and similar files before doing a build or merge. Or at least pay attention when merging and then changes will be known before they are applied. Then I tend to pre-merge and avoid some issues (ala smmsp user). Would rather everything be off and turn on what is needed. This should be made the policy for any additions to rc.conf. Should be used to it, but grow tired of big deals being made out of little things. Or it's just those doing upgrades don't do their homework. Think you are right doing the change now, as I doubt many will be paying attention when 5.0 is released and they assume things are the same. Either a little pain now or a lot later. <sigh> Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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