From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 19 20:11:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hobbits.brel.com (hobbits.brel.com [203.127.231.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8064C37B416; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by hobbits.brel.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 462413316; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:11:30 +0800 (SGT) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:11:30 +0800 From: Calvin NG To: D J Hawkey Jr Cc: DougB@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory Message-ID: <20020420111130.C6261@brel.com> References: <20020419225855.E7E575D05_ptavv.es.net@ns.sol.net> <20020419181021.X18267-100000_zoot.corp.yahoo.com@ns.sol.net> <200204200256.g3K2uOu10038@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200204200256.g3K2uOu10038@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:56:24PM -0500 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 Greetings, I believe when people say copy rc.conf from /etc/defaults/ into /etc/, and go throught it line by line, they really mean, 1) copy rc.conf from /etc/defaults/ to /etc/ 2) go through it line by line, deleting every line that you want leave as default. Make changes to the site specific stuff, like sshd_enable=YES At the end of the whole exercise, you will get that small rc.conf again that is tailored to your server's need. Same applies for make.conf and other /etc/defaults/ files. Does that make sense? I for one can see the rationale of the new rc.conf changes, where everything is off, and all things that are turned on is reflected in the _ONE_ /etc/rc.conf file. I got bitten by it, (inetd not started), but I am not complaining, I blame myself for failing to pay attention to changes in _MY_ server. Regards, /calvin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message