>I, personally, have no need of /etc/defaults and typically disable it,
>anyway.
>
>Since the whole thing is environment variables, why not make /etc/rc.conf
>and /etc/make.conf _include_ the ones in /etc/defaults (first thing in the
>file) (if they exist, obviously)? At which point, those of us w
>I'm a bit confused with make.conf now that I've moved to 4.0: Do I add my
>customizations to /etc/make.conf, or do I edit /etc/defaults/make.conf?
>
>When I started using FreeBSD (3.4), anything in /etc/defaults was not
>supposed to be touched. All the overriding was done in /etc (e.g.,
>/etc/rc.
> >
> > This is a pet peeve of mine. Freebsd-stable is supposed to be the mailing
> > list that is required reading for anyone tracking stable, where all useful
> > information related to tracking stable is to be found.
> >
> > However, the list is increasingly such a high-volume, low signal-to
> My $0.02: I thinks it's a good idea for /etc/defaults/whatever to set the
> defaults and then load any customizations for /etc/whatever. Personally, I
> *like* having small /etc/whatever files with just my entries to worry about.
> And if we call defaults from the /etc copy, you have to first h
I, personally, have no need of /etc/defaults and typically disable it,
anyway.
Since the whole thing is environment variables, why not make /etc/rc.conf
and /etc/make.conf _include_ the ones in /etc/defaults (first thing in the
file) (if they exist, obviously)? At which point, those of us who do
I'm a bit confused with make.conf now that I've moved to 4.0: Do I add my
customizations to /etc/make.conf, or do I edit /etc/defaults/make.conf?
When I started using FreeBSD (3.4), anything in /etc/defaults was not
supposed to be touched. All the overriding was done in /etc (e.g.,
/etc/rc.conf).
>It has been brought to my attention that a blank email was sent to this
>list containing nothing more than my signature earlier on today. I
>would like to stress that this was NOT spam, and was in fact an error on
>my behalf during an attempt to subscribe to the list.
>I apologize for any upset
I've just finished setting up FreeBSD 4.0R with ipfw and natd and I've noticed
either a discrepency between the actual functionality and the man page or a
misunderstanding on my part.
The man page recommends putting the divert rule as close to the beginning
of the rule set as possible, and th
Doug Barton wrote:
>
> Peter W. already suggested /usr/local/etc/rc.shutdown (or something to
> that effect, I don't remember the name exactly). I would like to see the
> shutdown scripts in a totally seperate directory. For those scripts that
> work properly for startup and shutdown, har
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Mariusz Handke wrote:
> hello, i'm looking for a site with sources/packages
> of 4.0-stable
>
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Try your local source ftp://ftp.pl.
hello, i'm looking for a site with sources/packages
of 4.0-stable
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Today Jeremy Shaffner wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jun 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Ehh, just a few months ago it was possible to download 4.0-STABLE snapshots
> > from current.freebsd.org. But not anymore
>
> 4.0 is no longer -CURRENT. Snapshots are on releng4.freebsd.org.
Yes, and someone shou
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> This should work as it always has; no change has been made to the code
> in question, nor have any additional size limits (or any other kind)
> been imposed.
Hmm, I'll try to play with it in a less hostile environment. The obvious
workaround, to install just bindist and then go to the emergenc
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