Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:30:01 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/34046: Sysinstall fails to read existing conf files Message-ID: <200201210830.g0L8U1s96343@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/34046; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Antony <antony.pollard@btinternet.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/34046: Sysinstall fails to read existing conf files Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:29:02 +0200 On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:05:59PM -0800, Antony wrote: > > >Number: 34046 > >Category: i386 > >Synopsis: Sysinstall fails to read existing conf files [snip] > >How-To-Repeat: > load up sysinstall and choose configure then networking then services ( i > think) and enable sendmail. exit out of sysinstall and then do the same > but disable sendmail. look in rc.conf and u will see that it has a line > enabeling sendmail and the disabeling it which is quite pointless. This > can also happen during the initial install of FreeBSDif u tell sendmail > not to be enabled but it will still load on the first boot. This is not really pointless; it helps preserve the history of changes, so that later it is *very* easy to restore the configuration as it was before the most recent round of changes (or, for that matter, before any round of changes done via sysinstall). The additional lines do no harm, yet they might prove extremely useful in the case of a mistake made during editing. There is indeed the possibility that a hasty sysadmin editing the rc.conf file by hand might change a value at the first occcurrence of a variable, and fail to notice that the same variable is assigned a different value further down, but I think this would fall under the category of acceptable risks of pilot error :) In general, I believe that sysinstall's behavior of keeping the old values is very useful and should be kept unchanged. G'luck, Peter -- When you are not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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