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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:32:50 +0400
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc hosts.allow
Message-ID:  <20060830203250.GA11411@rambler-co.ru>
In-Reply-To: <86zmdmfoow.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <86zmdmfoow.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:27:59PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Modified files:
> >     etc                  hosts.allow
> >   Log:
> >   Comment out lines that use example addresses and example.com names so
> >   that local changes can be made more easily (without having to comment
> >   these lines, and making the diff more readable).
>=20
> That reminds me - /etc/hosts is another file that mergemaster often
> trips over.  The comments and examples it contains should be moved to
> the appropriate man page(s) if they aren't there already.  In fact, we
> should probably remove the file from the tree, and just have
> sysinstall create one at install time.
>=20
Not everyone uses sysinstall(8) to install the systems (I rarely use
it, for example).  And I'm not sure that having no /etc/hosts file is
acceptable.  As opposed to having NO /etc/hosts.allow file, which is
perfectly valid.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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