From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 24 6: 7:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527D337B423 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 06:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13Rwix-0006UR-00; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:07:15 +0200 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:07:15 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Upcoming rc.conf changes not loading certain currently loaded daemons Message-ID: <20000824150715.A24874@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200008240454.AAA31598@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200008240454.AAA31598@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:03:50AM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2000-08-24 (01:03), Francisco Reyes wrote: > What was the reason for these daemons been set to not start? > Wouldn't this "break" working machines? Only if you upgrade without reading the heads-up and warnings in UPDATING. The reason was to make things more obvious. If you have an empty /etc/rc.conf, you don't expect portmap and inetd to be running. (and when I'm through with it, sendmail won't be listening on port 25 by default either *evil.grin*) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message