Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:19:09 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org> To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970411201730.10470A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199704120139.LAA10681@topaz.nemeton.com.au>
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On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Giles Lean wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:50:43 -0700 "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > > how about creating HERE documents *inside* sysconfig which create > > > /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/namedb.boot, ...... > > > > So they'd be regenerated each time you booted up? > > > > Hmmmm. That's not such a terrible idea, actually, ... > > Ouch! Yikes! NOOOOOOOOOOO! > > That way lies the errors and madness of AIX's ODM database-thingy and > general confusion for all. > > Some configuration files just have to be grandfathered, most > especially those that are often controlled or supplied by a network > administrator. > > Giles > I have to agree; I just became/got stuffed into being admin for an AIX machine, and I don't even want to think about it all. I look in /etc, and just about everything's symlinked all over the disk!! What happens in one of those other partitions gets corrupted, and that's where the file you need to fix it actually is?? Not to mention, just trying to ls -fl, you can barely read it all. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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