From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 24 13: 6:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA2B37B67D for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:06:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA44167; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:05:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3A982224.893F76AF@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:05:40 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Laurie Cc: Mikel King , 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> <3A97A4E6.C53ECF27@algroup.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Adam Laurie wrote: > > 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? The original question I responded to suggested putting the settings for rc.firewall into a whole new conf file. My point was that there were already several locations that would be more appropriate. Doug -- "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory . . . lasts forever." -- Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco in "The Replacements" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message