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Date:      Fri, 31 May 2002 23:46:58 +0200
From:      "Daniel Blankensteiner" <db@traceroute.dk>
To:        "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD daemon configurations redesign
Message-ID:  <01bf01c208ec$b11a7380$6800a8c0@rafter>
References:  <F67gL6wxvw0IDT8zAJ90000d078@hotmail.com> <00c601c2082d$bc531ff0$6800a8c0@rafter> <3CF6B300.145E0CD9@mindspring.com> <011201c20832$34404750$6800a8c0@rafter> <3CF6CC39.BFC0A232@mindspring.com> <011001c20885$6dc3db60$6800a8c0@rafter> <3CF7E342.C351A12E@mindspring.com>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
> > I am only talk about config files, the binaries and log should not
be in
> > here.
>
> I'm also taling about config files.
>
> Seperate config files is a bad idea.  We tolerate it now because
> a lot of things wouldn't fit into rc.conf (like the sendmail
> configuration data).  For things that can, they should.  Your
> examples were all things that can.  I don't understand the
> benefit of breaking them up, except to have more files to worry
> about, and more things that need to be writeable (or symlinked
> and moved, when / isn't writeable).

I think it is easier to setup, let's say FTP, if you know ALL the config
files are in /etv/daemons/ftp. And the only place to start the ftpd from
when booting, is from /etc/daemons/startup.
When you add a user, you have to grand him or deny him access to
services. This you do by changing a lot of config files, maybe
forgetting some? So a central access file, is maybe not so bad.
When more services are added, /etc will "explode". We already got
/etc/mail and /etc/ssh, why not /etc/ftp? And then put them in
/etc/daemons/, it makes more sence.

db
db


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