Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 20:28:53 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Ngie Cooper <ngie@freebsd.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r318250 - in head: etc etc/newsyslog.conf.d etc/syslog.d tools/build/mk Message-ID: <20170515202853.GA88899@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1494879113.59865.129.camel@freebsd.org> References: <201705131537.v4DFbgWV045290@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <2229085.lB46rKsq7o@ralph.baldwin.cx> <1494870201.59865.103.camel@freebsd.org> <4703731.Pl02uSWy7k@ralph.baldwin.cx> <1494879113.59865.129.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 02:11:53PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > ... > In general a lot of this feels like "I only needed 6 big config files > to control my whole system in 1988, and so I should only need those > same 6 files now." Yup; doesn't it feel good? (That's one of our selling points BTW.) > Sure, all us old-timers have the finger memory for editing rc.conf and > syslog.conf and so on, but how often do you crack open syslog.conf with > the plan of editing 12 different lines in it at once? Actually I don't want to open it [newsyslog.conf] at all, and on desktop, where odd things are noticed quickly, default rotation is good enough. I might want to edit it on server to e.g. keep at least one year worth of logs, and when I do, I'd rather edit one file instead of half-dozen. > Because the main objection to .conf.d directories seems to be that > there are more files to edit, and that just doesn't feel like a big > problem in actual daily use. Well, it kind of is. Keeping in mind "same 6 files" is a big helper; for the base you can be sure you won't forget anything accidentally. It is not that easy for ports for obvious reasons, but then again: we are talking about the base only here. ./danfe
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