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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:04:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        jkh@freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc sysconfig netstart rc
Message-ID:  <199503211604.IAA05239@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503211520.HAA17188@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 21, 95 07:20:51 am

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> 
> jkh         95/03/21 07:20:50
> 
>   Modified:    etc      netstart rc
>   Added:       etc      sysconfig
>   Log:
>   Begin a long-overdue cleanup of this whole mess.
>   
>   1. Move all system configuration variables into /etc/sysconfig
>   2. Adapt other files to use it.
>   3. Add a host of new variables for micro-managing your system in various
>   ways.  For 2.1, /etc/sysconfig will be machine-edited so that the user
>   doesn't even have to care at all about the various funny names we picked.

Your assuming that a human will never have to go in to this file and
muck around, bad assumption IMHO.

>   4. Enable dset.  We won't get it debugged if we never use it, and no one
>   has said anything negative about it yet, so here goes!
>   5. Try to use one consistent style throughout.
> 

Other than my one complaint, thanks, this should help to centralize a
lot of my hacks in /etc.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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