Hi, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote on Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:18:39PM -0200:
> The main issue here is, that, the human brain, although being this > wonderful machine, makes a lot of assumptions to fill in the gaps, even > when there are *no *gaps to be filled. I don't know if the documentation > needs to be clearer in this specific case. Even though the misunderstanding does not seem to occur often, it does seem somewhat unsurprising because a lot of other software encourages the (imho questionable) practice of copying example configuration files. So here is what i came up with to make this clearer without making it longer or more redundant. OK? Ingo Index: rc.conf.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man8/rc.conf.8,v retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -r1.20 rc.conf.8 --- rc.conf.8 17 Mar 2012 14:46:40 -0000 1.20 +++ rc.conf.8 12 Feb 2014 09:40:09 -0000 @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ .Nm rc.conf untouched, and instead create and edit a new .Nm rc.conf.local -file. -Variables set in this file will override variables previously set in -.Nm rc.conf . +file, setting just those variables whose +.Nm rc.conf +default values are intended to be overridden. .Pp Some variables are used to turn features on or off. For example, whether the system runs the
