Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:03:09 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: Add timecounter option to rc.conf Message-ID: <20030411090309.GN6427@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200304110155.13446.wes@softweyr.com> References: <30340.1049663478@critter.freebsd.dk> <200304110155.13446.wes@softweyr.com>
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--27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:55:13AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2003 14:11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <xzpu1dbs8b5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav=20 > writes: > > >"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > > >> In message <xzp1y0fmpb5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav= =20 > writes: > > >> > The attached patch adds a timecounter option to rc.conf and an > > >> > rc.d script to handle it. > > >> > > >> What's wrong with using /etc/sysctl.conf for this ? > > > > > >Partly because I believe that the choice of timecounter hardware is > > >sufficiently important to the performance and correct operation of the > > >system to warrant its own rc.conf knob, and partly because I hate the > > >"configuration diaspora" of which sysctl.conf is a prime example. > > > > I on the other hand think that by now /etc/rc.conf has so many knobs > > and handles that it is practically impossible to figure out how to > > do anything without resorting to "less /etc/rc.*" to figure it out :-( >=20 > We could always write a nice GTK+ application that edits it for you... >=20 > /me ducks and hides Errr.. you mean like ports/sysutils/thefish ? :) G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If the meanings of 'true' and 'false' were switched, then this sentence wou= ldn't be false. --27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+loTN7Ri2jRYZRVMRAs+xAJ9cv79oMepQSgUOo5Awp8+lG5wgLACfU0O3 6tUrv7ZLNVlrSE6bgHCXq9g= =walE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU--
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