Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-09-03 Thread Sergey Babkin
Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > I think you misunderstand the goal. This is meant to benefit every > single user who *updates* FreeBSD. That is a much larger audience > than committers. This split has nothing to do with merging changes > into the FreeBSD source repository. > > The merge we are ta

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-09-01 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > I think the file needs to include the localhost.my.domain entry, even > though every installation should be changing that 'my.domain' part. Aargh, no, that's broken by default. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ FISHER: W

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-09-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 01 September 2006 06:27, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:27:55PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > [...] > > >I was thinking of /usr/share/examples/ppp (I thought it had > > >been under /usr/share/examples/etc/ppp). Having > > >/usr/share/examples/etc in its current fo

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-09-01 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:27:55PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: [...] > >I was thinking of /usr/share/examples/ppp (I thought it had > >been under /usr/share/examples/etc/ppp). Having > >/usr/share/examples/etc in its current form really isn't all > >that useful as for one thing it has rotted a

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-09-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:42:19PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > On Aug 30/06, Tom Rhodes asks the reasonable question: > >On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:28:34 +0400 > >Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > > > >> >

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Tom Rhodes
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 01:34:35 +0400 Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:21:13PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:09, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:18, To

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Tom Rhodes
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:58:38 +0200 (MET DST) Helge Oldach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roman Kurakin: > >I suggest to make these files the way which would encourage peoples to keep > >example part, for example, under working part. Example will be still in the > >file, it will not bother admin, cau

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 5:21 PM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:09, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote: > > >This is already spelled /usr/share/examples/etc in FreeBSD. Actually, as it stands right now that is not quite the same thing. Righ

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:21:13PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:09, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote: > > >On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:18, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > >> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:00:04 +0400 > > > > Ruslan Ermilov <[

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:09, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote: > >On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:18, Tom Rhodes wrote: > >> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:00:04 +0400 > > > Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > > > No, /etc/defaults are different b

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Helge Oldach wrote: 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost Noting the RFC 1918 addresses in the default /etc/hosts is *very* useful. If we (part of the Inetnet community) wants to encourage proper IP use, we shouldn't hide this information in an obscur

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:58 PM +0200 8/31/06, Helge Oldach wrote: Roman Kurakin: > I suggest to make these files the way which would encourage peoples > to keep example part, for example, under working part. Example will > be still in the file, it will not bother admin, cause it do not > cover essential part of

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 1:53 PM +0400 8/31/06, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: [...] I'd replace the default /etc/hosts with: 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost I think that is trimming that file too much. I think the file needs to include the localhost.my.domain entry, even though every installation sho

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 8:48 AM -0400 8/31/06, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:18, Tom Rhodes wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:00:04 +0400 > Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, /etc/defaults are different beasties -- they are true > default config files -- they are either used i

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: additional read(2) syscalls and parsing. I'd replace the default /etc/hosts with: 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost Noting the RFC 1918 addresses in the default /etc/h

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Helge Oldach
David O'Brien: >On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> additional read(2) syscalls and parsing. I'd replace the >> default /etc/hosts with: >> >> 127.0.0.1localhost >> ::1 localhost > >Noting the RFC 1918 addresses in the default /etc/hosts is *very* usefu

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > additional read(2) syscalls and parsing. I'd replace the > default /etc/hosts with: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > ::1 localhost Noting the RFC 1918 addresses in the default /etc/hosts is *very* useful. If we (part of the

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > b) by putting them in /etc/defaults, users do *see* the changes : >when they run mergemaster, even though they won't have to : >merge those changes with local changes. In some cases the : >change

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:18, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:00:04 +0400 > Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > No, /etc/defaults are different beasties -- they are true > > default config files -- they are either used if there's no > > corresponding version under

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Helge Oldach
Roman Kurakin: >I suggest to make these files the way which would encourage peoples to keep >example part, for example, under working part. Example will be still in the >file, it will not bother admin, cause it do not cover essential part of >the file, >and will simplify merging. So, with the ben

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Niclas Zeising
Tom Rhodes wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:00:04 +0400 Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, /etc/defaults are different beasties -- they are true default config files -- they are either used if there's no corresponding version under /etc, or most likely sourced to provide defaults. To b

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Roman Kurakin
Helge Oldach wrote: Sergey Babkin: From: Tom Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think they should be moved to /usr/share/examples/etc/ (like make.conf), with files in /etc/ representing good (short) defaults with a minimum of comments and probably references to examples. I don't t

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Helge Oldach
Sergey Babkin: >>From: Tom Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> I think they should be moved to /usr/share/examples/etc/ (like >>> make.conf), with files in /etc/ representing good (short) defaults >>> with a minimum of comments and probably references to examples. >I don't think anything should be moved

Re: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Sergey Babkin
>From: Tom Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I think they should be moved to /usr/share/examples/etc/ (like >> make.conf), with files in /etc/ representing good (short) defaults >> with a minimum of comments and probably references to examples. >> Like no /etc/hosts.allow file at all: >> >> """ >> A

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Tom Rhodes
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:00:04 +0400 Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, /etc/defaults are different beasties -- they are true > default config files -- they are either used if there's no > corresponding version under /etc, or most likely sourced > to provide defaults. To be moved

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:15:57PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 12:28 AM +0400 8/31/06, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > > > ... I wonder if it would be better to > > > have the comments and examples as files under /etc/defa

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:42:19PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > On Aug 30/06, Tom Rhodes asks the reasonable question: > >On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:28:34 +0400 > >Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > > > >> >

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread freebsd
Gregory Shapiro wrote: My list would be: /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.allow /etc/pf.conf /etc/printcap I would add /etc/networks to that list (useless examples and often modified). I nominate /etc/login.conf for removal of its 7-year-old examples section.

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-31 Thread Gregory Shapiro
> My list would be: > /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.allow > /etc/pf.conf > /etc/printcap I would add /etc/networks to that list (useless examples and often modified). ___ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:12, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > These are files which have "too many" helpful comments or examples > in them, and which I have to modify on every single machine I ever > bring up. So *every* time one of these changes, I have to stop and > stare at the diff in the merge

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Rhodes
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:42:19 -0400 Garance A Drosehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 30/06, Tom Rhodes asks the reasonable question: > >On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:28:34 +0400 > >Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote:

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Rhodes
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:15:57 -0400 Garance A Drosehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:28 AM +0400 8/31/06, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > > > ... I wonder if it would be better to > > > have the comments and examples as files

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-30 Thread Garance A Drosehn
On Aug 30/06, Tom Rhodes asks the reasonable question: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:28:34 +0400 Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > I do think those comments and examples are useful, but it might be > > better to mo

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-30 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 12:28 AM +0400 8/31/06, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > ... I wonder if it would be better to > have the comments and examples as files under /etc/defaults. I > suppose they could also go under /usr/share/examples, but for > th

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Rhodes
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:28:34 +0400 Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > [perhaps this should be continued on freebsd-arch?] > > > I think this is too simple material for freebsd-arch. :-) > > > At 1:27 PM +0200 8/30/0

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-30 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > [perhaps this should be continued on freebsd-arch?] > I think this is too simple material for freebsd-arch. :-) > At 1:27 PM +0200 8/30/06, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > >> Modified files: > >> etc hosts.a

Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc

2006-08-30 Thread Garance A Drosehn
[perhaps this should be continued on freebsd-arch?] At 1:27 PM +0200 8/30/06, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Modified files: etc hosts.allow Log: > Comment out lines that use example addresses and example.com > names so t