Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:30:24 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS Client option -- didn't take Message-ID: <199710082030.WAA09091@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199710081852.EAA01020@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Oct 9, 97 04:22:50 am"
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> >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. > I guess it depends on your point of view. The way I do boxes here is to keep the default rc.conf and make all changes in rc.conf.local. This means I can at any time update the rc.* scripts and I will get the new variables that were added to rc.conf with their default values. This makes life a lot easier than having to constantly merge the new rc.conf variables into my configured rc.conf. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
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