From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 24 4:13:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (ns.algroup.co.uk [194.128.162.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFAE37B4EC for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 04:13:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk ([192.168.192.1]) by eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA26770; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:12:04 GMT Message-ID: <3A97A4E6.C53ECF27@algroup.co.uk> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:11:18 +0000 From: Adam Laurie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Mikel King , Doug Barton , Nick Sayer , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.firewall fixes References: <200102202005.f1KK5kv83619@medusa.kfu.com> <3A93A9CC.BC1D39FB@algroup.co.uk> <3A93C2FB.3E160997@ocsinternet.com> <3A94AE05.965BC5E4@gorean.org> <3A9526AA.19D00D47@ocsinternet.com> <3A954152.C7887C3@gor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Barton wrote: > > Mikel King wrote: > > > > rc.conf.local and rc.local weree deprecated around the release of 4.x. > > Don't be silly. Both are fully supported, and there is no plan to remove > support at any time in the future (and I will vigorously oppose any plan to > do so). The only thing that has actually changed is that the system no > longer ships with an rc.local file installed. so what's the point in putting it in there instead of rc.conf then? since the interfaces that will be referred to, and other firewall parameters are set in /etc/rc.conf, and rc.conf is explicitly read by /etc/rc.firewall, this would seem the logical choice (and yes, i'm aware that rc.conf.local will also get read, but it just seems a needless obfuscation, particularly since it is not even there by default). cheers, Adam -- Adam Laurie Tel: +44 (20) 8742 0755 A.L. Digital Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 8742 5995 Voysey House http://www.thebunker.net Barley Mow Passage http://www.aldigital.co.uk London W4 4GB mailto:adam@algroup.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM PGP key on keyservers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message