Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:40:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Discussion : Using DHCP to obtain configuration. Message-ID: <199804171440.HAA00619@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:34:09 BST." <l03020907b15cc283cfbb@[194.32.164.2]>
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> At 6:34 am +0100 17/4/98, Mike Smith wrote: > >A new banner: "/etc must die!". > > I disagree. The more mechanism that minimally has to be working before the > system can boot, run a shell and talk to a network, the more nervous I get. > init is too complicated already. Just because Apallo did it 15 years ago > and Windows does it now, doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea. KISS There's no more mechanism required under any proposed death-of-etc scheme than there is now; you need init, the shell and ifconfig. I don't see anyone suggesting that these guys go away. On the other hand, concentrating much of the system configuration information out of various files in /etc into rc.conf has been a popular move. This takes it just a little further is all. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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