Though I looked on a 5.3 system, rc.conf(8) suggests the following: "It is advisable to leave rc.conf untouched, and instead create and edit a new rc.conf.local file."
That's rather different from creating a copy. From a brief look at CVS, it's the same for -current. Regards, Rogier On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:28 PM, VaZub <vasyl.zu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a small nuisance I've stumbled upon during my first > experiments with OpenBSD. > > Both the man page for rc.conf(8) as well as the official OpenBSD FAQ > (10.3) suggest to avoid editing /etc/rc.conf directly and instead copy > it to /etc/rc.conf.local and edit afterwards. Yet it seems both fail > to mention, that in order to prevent your system from going ballistic > after doing this, you should also comment out or delete a particular > line of code in /etc/rc.conf.local, namely this one: > "[ -f /etc/rc.conf.local ] && . /etc/rc.conf.local". Not good, > especially for those who do follow official instructions and still > suddenly find themselves with a broken system on their hands for no > apparent reason. > > This might seem like a trivial issue for old-timers, and one is sure > to find the appropriate solution with a little bit of deeper googling, > but having short relevant notices in the aforementioned manuals could > save newcomers some introductory frustration. What do you think? Is > there anyone among those looking after the official documentation up > to consider such a suggestion? > > Regards, > Vasyl Zubko > > -- If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
