Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:01:55 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Matteo Riondato <matteo@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults periodic.conf Message-ID: <20060131013155.GB70488@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060131012732.GQ1388@over-yonder.net> References: <200601301233.k0UCXiKq085748@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060130123525.GD83922@FreeBSD.org> <20060130215816.GC91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060130235717.J95776@fledge.watson.org> <20060131005711.GB16211@comp.chem.msu.su> <20060131010335.GQ91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060131012003.GP1388@over-yonder.net> <20060131012211.GS91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060131012732.GQ1388@over-yonder.net>
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--PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 30 January 2006 at 19:27:32 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:52:11AM +1030 I heard the voice of > Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> Note the word "easily". Yes, you and I can do it. But we're not end >> users by any stretch of the imagination. > > Well, sure, but as you said: > >> That would mean something like a knob DFFLAGS in >> /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > > We have that; it's just that the knob is $daily_status_disks_df_flags, > and it's in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf (along with the rest of the > periodic config stuff). Egg on my face. I skimmed over that and it didn't hit me in the face (unlike the egg). > I s'pose it could be "easier" if we had some graphical tool or > something to manage periodic.conf, but we don't really have any > widespread ones for rc.conf either. No, but the one-stop nature of defaults/rc.conf is somewhat diluted by other defaults files. Why do we need more than one? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD3r4LIubykFB6QiMRAvY7AJ0UU2zYqW1lgCS28W/vga3fYgpCcwCggfuz zpBtPZ8V5HZwtXgDKpJW/38= =nCho -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PmA2V3Z32TCmWXqI--
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