>On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 05:58:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> Mike Nguyen <mikengu...@sprintmail.com> writes: >> consolidating all that config information in one place, such as >> /etc/rc.conf, would be a good thing. > >Agreed, it really isn't such a good idea to clutter /etc/ with all >those single line configuration files. > How about having one file in /etc containing all the different configuration options, and have this file processed by a program to generate all the different configuration files. This would give us the benefits of a centralized configuration file, without the need of rewriting the many programs that really want to have their configuration in specific files.
On the other hand, this would require a reprocessing of the file for each modification to the configuration. Maybe we could run the command at the beginning of /etc/rc, and allow a user with root privileges to rerun the command at any time to rescan the configuration? It would require a minimum of effort to implement this, so I hope this is not too simple for us. Regards --- Erik H. Bakke Habatech AS e...@habatech.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
