Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:33:54 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@yahoo-inc.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, imp@village.org Subject: Re: /usr/src/UPDATING does not reflect /etc/defaults/rc.conf Message-ID: <39F54972.F8CDFFFE@yahoo-inc.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010230238400.44191-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
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FreeBSD wrote:
>
> In /usr/src/UPDATING:
>
> 20000907:
> Networking defaults have been tightened. Anybody upgrading
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf needs to add the following lines to
> /etc/rc.conf if they want to have the same setup
> afterwards (unless the variables already are set, of course):
> # Enable network daemons for user convenience.
> inetd_enable="YES"
> portmap_enable="YES"
> sendmail_enable="YES"
>
> And yet /etc/defaults/rc.conf has all three already enabled. The rc files
> loads /etc/defaults/rc.conf before looking at /etc/rc.conf, which in a
> default install does not exist. Does this mean that the 20000907 entry in
> /etc/src/UPDATING was in error? Or was it simply never committed?
The MFC for this never occurred. One or the other should be updated to
reflect reality before 4.2...
Doug
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