From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <21028248ca370ef204d9155e25d28dd8@caldo.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Installed Plan 9, now what? From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 10:28:43 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9e6b7d3a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>perhaps, but i think that's necessary anyway even with all the . this-and-that-local attempts, >>and in some ways they make it less obvious that something has changed. i probably ought to have added that i've had exactly that trouble with /etc/rc.conf on FreeBSD, which overrides /etc/default/rc.conf, which configures /etc/too-many-rc-files # This is rc.conf - a file full of useful variables that you can set # to change the default startup behavior of your system. You should # not edit this file! Put any overrides into one of the ${rc_conf_files} it has advantages i suppose, especially when each component comes with its own contribution to /etc/* (except when it's /usr/local/etc) but in practice i found i needed to grep for all the instances of each variable that i thought i might need to change in order to decide whether and how to change it. tcp_extensions="YES" really i wanted "MAYBE" or "GOODQUESTION" or "YOUTELLME" or "YOU'RETHECOMPUTER!" i believe Linux applies fuzzy logic to this sort of thing.