Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:26:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>, current <current@FreeBSD.org>, multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: it's time... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990810092341.26043A-100000@beelzebubba.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908100353140.854-100000@localhost>
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: :* an rc.audio or rc.multimedia (this could perhaps contain some bt484 :related things). : :But if it goes into "the" rc.conf, that would mean that whenever it runs :at shutdown, it edits rc.conf; this isn't IMO a real great idea. :Anything automated (even sysinstall) editing rc.conf in any way shape or :form makes me leery because it's so much more error prone. Why not create such a file, and update it whenever a change is made? The settings are always in whatever state you last set them to, no matter when it was, and you don't have to race shutdown. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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