Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:40:50 -0400 From: Gordon Smith <gsmith@acrelic.com> To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Handbook 11.3 Core Configuration Suggestion Message-ID: <0IIV009TW889HG00@mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>
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Dear Keeper of the Holy Handbook, I am in the process of setting up a laptop system with FreeBSD, and it is really going well. I encountered a momentary issue, easily fixed, when I set up rc.conf and rc.conf.site as discussed here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-core- configuration.html The problem was that I set up the first executable line of rc.conf as . rc.conf.site not realizing that the FreeBSD startup code does not consider /etc to be the current directory at that moment. In effect, I had splunged rc.conf. I then looked up the commands for mounting the appropriate filesystems read-write and edited the fateful line of rc.conf to read . /etc/rc.conf.site Restarting the system worked beautifully. As such, I would like to suggest that the appropriate Handbook page be changed to reflect the use of the full pathname of the rc.conf.site file within the rc.conf file. I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you that I don't think I've ever laid eyes on a finer piece of documentation than the FreeBSD online Handbook. Really, I mean it - clear, concise, helpful - written by people who really care about what they're doing. Bravo/Brava. Please let me know if this has been helpful. Thank you. Gordon Smith VP Engineering Acrelic Interactive <mailto:gsmith@acrelic.com> gsmith@acrelic.com <http://www.acrelic.com/>; www.acrelic.com 732 560-7585
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