Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:13:48 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@execmail.ca> To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Subject: Re: some woes about rc.conf.site Message-ID: <EXECMAIL.990207231348.A@ht46l.execmail.ca> In-Reply-To: <199902072245.OAA51371@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> References: <199902072245.OAA51371@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 13:16:28 PST." <199902072116.NAA26516@apollo.backplane.com>
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--Part9902072313.B Content-Type: Text/Plain; CHARSET="US-ASCII"; name="ipm.txt" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="ipm.txt" > Then why bother having rc.conf in the first place? Just wire in all > the defaults straight into /etc/rc and leave rc.conf strictly for > overriding the defaults only, and eliminate rc.conf.* entirely. Because rc.conf contains configuration variables, whereas rc contains commands to execute at boot time. The configuration information stored in rc.conf is applicable to more than just /etc/rc. Splitting out the configuration into a seperate file (rc.conf) means it can be sourced by other utility scripts, such as /etc/rc.firewall. Sourcing /etc/rc to pick up config info would be a disaster. And FWIW, I'm in favour of a read-only rc.conf with machine specific overrides in rc.conf.local. rc.conf.site should vanish. --lyndon --Part9902072313.B Content-Type: Application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.5.2 (C) 1997-1998 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. iQA/AwUBNr6AnxvgRSChfsw2EQIxTACfXDRpIlJkYnDzN9aMqqEpGoxD0m0AoKYm iBrZDVuazsNhmigkv8DTEwBx =Z895 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Part9902072313.B-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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