Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:26:29 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902100000250.5413-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902091928190.50867-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, John Fieber wrote: > Lets not forget that with the latest round of changes, the > rc.conf in 3.1 will behave exactly as it has in the past. Think > about it. rc.conf was a "touchees" file in the past and it is a > "touchees" file now. The only difference is the addition of a > "no touchees" reference copy in /etc/defaults that gets sourced > before rc.conf so any essential variables introduced in an > upgrade will have a safety fallaback in case you don't properly > upgrade your rc.conf. If /etc/rc.conf only contains changes from the defaults when man something_or_other tells the user to find and edit something_or_other_flags in /etc/rc.conf the entry won't be there to edit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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