Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:30:46 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory Message-ID: <20020421.113046.131323596.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <200204200256.g3K2uOu10038@sheol.localdomain> References: <20020419225855.E7E575D05_ptavv.es.net@ns.sol.net> <20020419181021.X18267-100000_zoot.corp.yahoo.com@ns.sol.net> <200204200256.g3K2uOu10038@sheol.localdomain>
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hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) writes:
: IMHO, you muddy, if not nullify, the abstract altogether. You are advocating
: copying this file down to /etc, and editing it. There goes the concept of
: "overriding the values contained in this file".
Yes. /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf are separated because we
wanted to change the defaults from time to time. I agree that copying
/etc/defaults/rc.conf is a horrible idea. Down right stupid and
should never be advocated. *EVER*. We had that paradigm in FreeBSD
1.x and 2.x and it *DID*NOT*WORK*. That's the whole reason that we
separated things out into two files.
Warner
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