Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:59:42 -0800 From: Ted Cabeen <secabeen@pobox.com> To: tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas-Martin Seck) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature Request: /usr/local/etc/rc.conf support Message-ID: <87vfm5777l.fsf@gray.impulse.net> In-Reply-To: <20040217193127.5655.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> (Thomas-Martin Seck's message of "17 Feb 2004 19:31:27 -0000") References: <20040217193127.5655.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>
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tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas-Martin Seck) writes: > * Ted Cabeen <secabeen@pobox.com> [gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports]: > >> With the ever-increasing number of ports that use rc.conf variables to >> regulate their startup, would it be possible to add support for a >> /usr/local/etc/rc.conf file in FreeBSD? The constant changes to the >> rc.conf file have been playing havoc with my centralized management >> systems, and it makes it harder and harder to keep the /etc/rc.conf >> file set immutable (which I like to do on critical servers, to prevent >> the securelevel from changing). > > You can use /etc/rc.conf.local. Yeah, but that's supposedly deprecated. > See the declaration of rc_conf_files in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Also, that doesn't solve the problem of securelevels. rc.conf.local is still parsed by the boot scripts and could be used to over-ride the system's securelevel. Ideally I'd like a file that isn't considered part of the main RC system and is just for /usr/local. -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen ted@impulse.net Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 secabeen@pobox.com "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon secabeen@cabeen.org "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot cabeen@netcom.com
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