From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 20 14:42:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6428B37B41C for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Master.gorean.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3KLgfHt056900; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:42:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Master.gorean.org (zoot [127.0.0.1]) by Master.gorean.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3KLghLr015663; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by Master.gorean.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g3KLghK7015660; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:42:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Master.gorean.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:42:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: doug@master.gorean.org To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory In-Reply-To: <15552.61092.139031.719884@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <20020420144133.J15643-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Mike Meyer wrote: > Note that copying /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf does *not* fix > this problem. Any name changes in the defaults file will cause your > system to revert to the default behavior if you don't catch it, This is something that we try never to do. Adding and deleting names, sure. Modifying default values, sometimes. But changing names is evil. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message