[cc trimmed] On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Xin Li <delp...@delphij.net> wrote:
> Irrelevant. Consider this (extreme) situation: someone distributes > several sets of sysctl values tuned for certain situations, like > tcp.conf, supermicro.conf, ... and wants to put them together in a > directory, it's useful to source from the directory without having to > do a generation of command line on boot, so when something goes wrong, > they just remove the pack rather than changing /etc/rc.conf. > Not a direct reply, but just noting that it can be *very* useful to have, e.g., a README or foo.old or foo.disabled file in the same directory where the "live" configuration files live. Always interpreting the full '*' glob is not always the best thing to do. -Ben Kaduk _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"