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From: Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net>
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Subject: Re: NFS Client option -- didn't take
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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> >From the oct 7'th beta, selecting NFS client during the installation
> > didn't "take" in rc.conf.
> >
> > BTW, why is install modifying rc.conf instead of just writing the
> > changes into rc.conf.local?
> 
> Because rc.conf.local violates the entire purpose of rc.conf.  The
> default values for the variables in rc.conf are implicit in the rc.*
> scripts; rc.conf is where you overried these defaults as you wish.
> 
> mike

There are a few problems with sysinstall and rc.conf though.  I recently
made a change using sysinstall (enabled NFS client & server) and all the
lines in rc.conf had their comment appended again after the orignal
comment and a double quotes i.e.

nfs_client="NO"		# enable nfs client

became

nfs_client="NO"		# enable nfs client"	enable nfs client

I tend not to use sysinstall now and always edit rc.conf by hand.

regards
damian

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