-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: ... : Determining "source-ability" by sourcing is dangerous.
Well, you said make sure it's "sourcable" -- not "source it" :) : You would need to do a "chroot", or run it as a non-priviledged user, : for the purposes of testing, and you would not be able to see some side : effects, if the file contained code, even then. Yeah, but we've also got a file edited by root and root alone, why would root be trying to add all kinds of code in it? I think rc.conf will be failing as it is if people add certain code in it, what do we lose? : Also, people use "vipw" because if you don't, the database doesn't get : rebuilt. There's no corresponding force to make them use it for "virc". You can rebuild the database manually *ducks* -- I know what you're saying though, and I've used things similar to vipw for other daemon config files that had no databases simply for the safety of checking syntax. : All that aside, I'll admit that it would be better than what's there. Yep :) : But of course, that's more of a "Junior Hacker" than a "Junior Annoying : Hacker" task, and, really, what we are trying to do here is raise up : someone to compete with Albert for number of complaints. 8-) 8-o 8-O : }B^). :) * Matt Heckaman - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucida.ca/gpg * * GPG fingerprint - 46D8 5C3B 5499 1D14 F01C 2ADD D1B9 6165 9E16 F8E4 * The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest. -- G'Kar, "Survivors" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.ca/gpg/ iD8DBQE8W55K0blhZZ4W+OQRAjqLAKCeMIHPY5g6jhxDKCp42PcDJThmzwCgrpUf NXYHCrKEUqX70qyYFdLESq0= =2VH0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
