From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 27 11:41:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28642 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lamb.sas.com (lamb.sas.com [192.35.83.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28604 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwd@unx.sas.com) Received: from mozart (mozart.unx.sas.com [192.58.184.8]) by lamb.sas.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA05347; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:39:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mozart (5.65c/SAS/Domains/5-6-90) id AA02869; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:58:07 -0400 From: "John W. DeBoskey" Message-Id: <199808271158.AA02869@mozart> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:58:07 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Mike Smith" at Aug 26, 98 11:01:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, just to add a bit... I never change rc.conf on my systems. I put all changes into rc.conf.local. Thus, I can easily run a diff job across all the rc.* files and update them in an easy and straightforward manner. Additionally, the *.conf files are not network friendly. Mounting /etc from a common location is painful because of this. What I would really line to see is: rc.conf rc.conf.local <-- not a unique networkable entity rc.conf.$HOSTNAME <-- a unique networkable entity fyi: don't say it... yes, this can be done in rc.conf.local... :-( but it would be nice to have integrated support. Wishing, John > From mike@smith.net.au Wed Aug 26 23:01:55 1998 > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:01:55 +0000 > From: Mike Smith > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf > > > > Hmmm. Perhaps I'll just start storing the changed values into > > rc.conf.local from now on in sysinstall. That would sort of validate > > the concept. :) > > IMHO that should be rc.conf.template and rc.conf. The current > expectation is that rc.conf contains the current settings; moving that > elsewhere would be confusing. > > It is still valid to have rc.conf.template, rc.conf and rc.conf.local, > where the second is common to a group of machines, and the last > specific only to the machine in question. > > - -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message