On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:03:50AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On a recent email Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
> >..., rc.conf was recently changed (in -current) to not
> >start inetd, portmap or sendmail. If you are actually relying on
> >any of these daemons, and you actually notice the differences in
> >/etc/defaults/rc.conf, you will be able to update /etc/rc.conf
> >without a period of head-scratching when they don't start.
>
> What was the reason for these daemons been set to not start?
Now, if you have an empty /etc/rc.conf then (in theory) no network services
are running. This also means that if you want to find out what services are
started at boot time you only have to look in /etc/rc.conf, rather than
having to look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf as well.
> Wouldn't this "break" working machines?
Only if you (1) Are running -current, and (2) don't read the mailing lists
and the diffs mergemaster shows you.
If both (1) and (2) are true then you shouldn't be running -current anyway.
N
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