On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, jack wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > I think it's a *BAD* idea to change rc.conf operation for the 3.1 > > distribution. Bad Bad Bad. > > I have to agree. Let's not forget that there are over 30 man > pages with references to /etc/rc.conf.
Lets not forget that with the latest round of changes, the rc.conf in 3.1 will behave exactly as it has in the past. Think about it. rc.conf was a "touchees" file in the past and it is a "touchees" file now. The only difference is the addition of a "no touchees" reference copy in /etc/defaults that gets sourced before rc.conf so any essential variables introduced in an upgrade will have a safety fallaback in case you don't properly upgrade your rc.conf. The detour with rc.conf.site *did* change the way rc.conf was used. That was Bad Bad Bad and has just been fixed. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
