From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 11 22:53:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDB315014 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990412055250.LJPW5596385.mta1-rme@wocker>; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:52:50 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Jason C. Wells" Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:51:16 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/really_defaults/really_really_defaults Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990412055250.LJPW5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11 Apr 99, at 12:58, Jason C. Wells wrote: > My vote from userland is scrap /etc/defaults. Change mergemaster a bit. > Use rc and rc.conf and be done with it. Let make world handle rc but leave > rc.conf. Neah. The new rc.conf is way easier. With 3.1, you specify the non- default values. If you have a problem with the system, you have a much smaller file to deal with. If you have to show someone in a mailing list what your configuration is, it's only a few lines instead of the whole file. But I take it that isn't your beef. it's with the existance of the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file. I see. But at least it's easier having it here so we know what values we can override in rc.conf. cheers. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message