Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:15:23 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: Maxim Ignatenko <gelraen.ua@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/163508: [rc.subr] [patch] Add "enable" and "disable" commands to rc.subr Message-ID: <CADLo83-SK%2Bo0b9GysjhH0N=TxsZXLRAuKL-n%2Btt6%2BCcr1gAJWQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201112241230.pBOCUF3h064098@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201112241230.pBOCUF3h064098@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 24 December 2011 12:30, Maxim Ignatenko <gelraen.ua@gmail.com> wrote: > The following reply was made to PR conf/163508; it has been noted by GNAT= S. > > From: Maxim Ignatenko <gelraen.ua@gmail.com> > To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> > Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: conf/163508: [rc.subr] [patch] Add "enable" and > =A0"disable" commands to rc.subr > Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:20:19 +0200 > > =A0On 24 December 2011 04:15, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > =A0> This idea has been considered before and rejected because it's too > =A0> difficult to catch all the corner cases, and actually editing a conf= ig > =A0> file is not really all that hard of a thing to do. > =A0> > > =A0The idea was to make enabling/disabling services less error-prone. It > =A0don't need to catch _all_ corner cases, because if administrator do > =A0something unusual with startup configuration he should be able to > =A0manipulate it in proper way, or even have tools that do something > =A0similar. > =A0Proposed patch handles /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf.local and > =A0/etc/rc.conf.d/* properly (I hope), so it should fit nicely in 95% of > =A0cases. > =A0Doing `service someserive enable` is much faster and less error-prone > =A0that `service someservice rcvar ; echo someservicercvar_enable=3DYES >= > > =A0/etc/rc.conf` Disagree, sorry. If we're going to implement these ideas we should do it properly, not for 95% of cases. Chris
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