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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:11:25 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
To:        "Nik Clayton" <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Stable List" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons
Message-ID:  <200008241203.IAA32744@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000824101352.A48334@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:13:52 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:

>> What was the reason for these daemons been set to not start?
>
>Now, if you have an empty /etc/rc.conf then (in theory) no network services
>are running.  This also means that if you want to find out what services are
>started at boot time you only have to look in /etc/rc.conf, rather than
>having to look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf as well.

Then shouldn't we add the current programs which get started to
/etc/rc.conf?

>> Wouldn't this "break" working machines?
>
>Only if you (1) Are running -current, and (2) don't read the mailing lists
>and the diffs mergemaster shows you.
>
>If both (1) and (2) are true then you shouldn't be running -current anyway.

I know this is currently in "current", but won't this eventually
make it to stable?


francisco
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